Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Angry

“Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.”

Ends Faults Repentance

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Hopeful

“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.”

Literature Beauty Promise

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Philosophical

“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.”

Abstract Remains Exhausted

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Sad

“Life is simply what out feelings do to us.”

Feelings Life Is

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Spiritual

“We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.”

Moral Solitude

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Creative

“A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.”

Men Believe Block

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Philosophical

“Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.”

Men Action Providence

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Curious

“It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.”

Men Father Bakers

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Wise

“Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.”

Joy Keys Intellectual

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Love

“Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.”

Heart Looks Angel

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Courageous

“Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”

Political Principles Power

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Love

“When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.”

Husband Hatred Temptation

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