63 quotes by Honore de Balzac

“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.” — Honore de Balzac

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“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.” — Honore de Balzac

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“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.” — Honore de Balzac

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“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.” — Honore de Balzac

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“What is art? Nature concentrated.” — Honore de Balzac

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“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.” — Honore de Balzac

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“When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.” — Honore de Balzac

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“A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.” — Honore de Balzac

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“The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.” — Honore de Balzac

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“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Finance, like time, devours its own children.” — Honore de Balzac

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“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.” — Honore de Balzac

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“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.” — Honore de Balzac

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“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.” — Honore de Balzac

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“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” — Honore de Balzac

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“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.” — Honore de Balzac

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