Honoré de Balzac Quotes

Honoré de Balzac (112)

Birth:	20th May, 1799
Death:	18th August, 1850
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Businessman, Founder, Novelist, Politician, Publisher, Writer, Playwriter

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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.

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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.

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• Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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• If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

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• A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

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  Tags in Faithful

• A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

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  Topics in Love, Soul

• Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.

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• Love is the poetry of the senses.

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  Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

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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.

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  Tags in Obeys, Distinct, Passion, Fact, Rise, Command

• Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

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• Love is a game in which one always cheats.

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• Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser’s gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.

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  Tags in Key, Enjoyment, Miser, Treasures, Thought, Care

• What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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• When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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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.

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• Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady’s window.

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  Tags in Careless, Lies, Difference, Daylight

• 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.

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• If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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  Tags in Paint, Hand, Eye, Could

• Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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  Tags in Ecstasy, Die