Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Rebellious

“The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.”

Spirit Rebellion Rebellious

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Philosophical

“As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.”

Men Simple Secret

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Lonely

“Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.”

Twelve Handsome

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Thoughtful

“Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.”

Soul Literature

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Thoughtful

“Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.”

Moving Secret Affair

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Melancholic

“Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.”

Soul Bed Sorrow

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Love

“Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.”

Eye Virgins

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Angry

“Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.”

Envy Role Models

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Wise

“Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.”

Men Doe Done

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Sad

“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!”

Political Blood Fate

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Philosophical

“A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.”

Nature Flower Toads

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Hopeful

“If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.”

Sin Sorrow Mazes

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