Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Funny

“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.”

Degrees Weed Marijuana

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Philosophical

“Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.”

Government Beauty Power

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Philosophical

“The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.”

Country Trying

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Philosophical

“What is art? Nature concentrated.”

Art Literature

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Love

“Passion is born deaf and dumb.”

Passion Dumb Deaf

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Philosophical

“Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.”

Funny Stupid

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Philosophical

“Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.”

Sin Ugly

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Funny

“Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.”

Men Suffering Rivals

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Love

“A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.”

Love Is Imagination Novelists

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Angry

“The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.”

Soul Joy

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Grateful

“Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.”

Thinking Friendship

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Angry

“Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.”

Blood Cat Maids

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