Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Courageous

“During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.”

Simplicity Storm Captains

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Spiritual

“All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?”

Spiritual Heaven Silence

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Courageous

“Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.”

Doe Power

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Love

“Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.”

Men Love

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Sad

“A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.”

Long Mother Drama

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Confident

“The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true”

Mistake Spring Errors

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Angry

“Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.”

Doe Sometimes

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Melancholic

“Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.”

Memories Forget

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Grateful

“With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.”

Men Secret Grateful

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Happy

“A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.”

Husband Wife Found Happiness

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Happy

“To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.”

Men Love

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Love

“One hour of love has a whole life in it.”

Hours Whole Life

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