Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Love

“Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.”

Firsts Should Demand

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Inspired

“Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?”

Keys Suicide Paris

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Creative

“Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.”

Literature Study

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Sad

“The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.”

World Happiness

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Wise

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

Literature Spirit Heavenly

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Funny

“Love is a game in which one always cheats.”

Love Is Cheating

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Courageous

“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”

Children Time

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Funny

“If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.”

Years Enemy Spring

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Happy

“Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.”

Virtue Force Misfortunes

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Melancholic

“Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.”

Taken Glory

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Philosophical

“A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.”

Men Vanity

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Funny

“In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.”

People Matter Cracks

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