Honore de Balzac Quotes — Page 29

Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Love

“Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.”

World Women Wife

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Thoughtful

“People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.”

People Unhappiness Unfortunate

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Anxious

“Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.”

Lying Anticipation

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Grateful

“It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.”

Enough Shows

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Philosophical

“The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.”

Spiritual Memories Karma

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Angry

“Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.”

Bird Males Break Out

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Inspired

“Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.”

Opportunity Inspiration

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Funny

“Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.”

Admiration Tedious

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Spiritual

“White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.”

Strong Prayer Queens

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Love

“One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.”

Two Flames Hypocrisy

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Funny

“The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.”

Giving Deals

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Courageous

“Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.”

Love Blessing Marriage

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