Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac

Profession : Novelist

Birth : May 20, 1799

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

Honore de Balzac

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

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The more one judges, the less one loves.

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Love is the poetry of the senses.

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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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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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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

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What is art? Nature concentrated.

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

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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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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.

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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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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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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.

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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

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