Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac

Profession : Novelist

Birth : May 20, 1799

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

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

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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.

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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