Honoré de Balzac Short Quotes

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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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Life is a machine fueled by money, is it not?"

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What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?

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Women, perhaps, even require a little hypocrisy.

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.

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A man who can love deeply is never utterly contemptible.

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You are dressed so coquettishly to talk about chemistry.

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In love, one must not attack a place unless one storms it.

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

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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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It is necessary to be almost a genius to make a good husband.

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye!

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The greatest tyranny is to love where we are not loved again.

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

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"Temptations can be got rid of." "How?" "By yielding to them."

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Marriage is a treaty in which the conditions should be mutual.

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Convictions that remain silent are neither sincere nor profound.

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They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

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

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Like many widows, she came to the unwise decision of remarrying.

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Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

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It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

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

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In this world, one must put cloaks on all truths, even the nicest.

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You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

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