Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac

Profession : Novelist

Birth : May 20, 1799

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Honore de Balzac

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

Honore de Balzac

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Honore de Balzac

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Honore de Balzac

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Honore de Balzac

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

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Love is a game in which one always cheats.

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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

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Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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

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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Honore de Balzac

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

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