Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Funny

“A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.”

Artist Literature Grocers

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Courageous

“When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.”

Want Husband Betrayal

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Funny

“Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.”

Eccentricity

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Sad

“Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.”

Happiness Social

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Philosophical

“No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.”

Husband Wife

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Philosophical

“For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?”

World Pain Shadow

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Philosophical

“Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.”

Men Lying Gambling

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Philosophical

“Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.”

Clothes Advantage Veils

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Philosophical

“When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?”

Littles Fashion Good Man

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Philosophical

“Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.”

Vices Innocence Audacity

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Spiritual

“Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.”

Spiritual Science Angel

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Inspired

“With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.”

Soul Expectations Punishment

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