Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Philosophical

“The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.”

Flower Spring Summer

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Angry

“Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.”

Men Choices Loss

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Spiritual

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

Lying Overcoming

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Angry

“For avarice begins where poverty ends.”

Ends Poverty

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Creative

“The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.”

Art Perfection Simplicity

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Love

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

Two Hate Hatred

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Love

“Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.”

Suffering Women

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Funny

“Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.”

People Stupid

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Sad

“Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.”

Age Failure

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Wise

“There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.”

Envy Mediocrity

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Funny

“A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.”

Clothes Vices

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Spiritual

“Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.”

Soul Voice

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