Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 7

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• Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

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  Love Is, Men, Delight

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• Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

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  Love, Earth, Sun

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• The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Facts, Impossible

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• The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

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  Safe, Boxes, Deposits

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• The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Hope, Passion

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.135, The Floating Press

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• Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

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  Paris, Pretty Woman, Inexplicable

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• The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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  Love, Chivalry, Motto

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• It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

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  Years, Perfection, History

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• Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

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  Light, Diets

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• A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

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  Clever, Men, Law

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• The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Passion, Literature

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• Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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  Desire, Vices, Desire To Learn

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• Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Excess

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.259, The Floating Press

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• Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

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  Hate, Like Love, Hatred

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• In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

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  Family, Children, Judging

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• Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

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  Destiny, Maids, Bent

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• Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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  Children, Literature, Sovereign

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.172, The Floating Press

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• The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

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  Fashion, Men, Fool

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• For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

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  Passion, Giving, Village Idiots

  "'Les Célibataires' ('A Bachelor's Establishment')". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

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• In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Growing, Firsts

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• Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

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  Love, Heart, Light

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• Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

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  Memories, Desire, Enjoyed

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• Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

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  Lovers, Break, Scoundrels

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• How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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  Quality, Vices, Failing

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• When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

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  Husband, Hatred, Temptation

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