Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Spiritual

“The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.”

Men Hate Hatred

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Philosophical

“There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.”

Heart Fall Women

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Wise

“Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.”

Events Individual

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Philosophical

“Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.”

Fortune

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Courageous

“When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.”

People Mind Black

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Philosophical

“By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.”

Believe Passion Women

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Creative

“Necessity is often the spur to genius.”

Inspirational Genius

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Angry

“Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.”

Fighting Marriage

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Love

“I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.”

Men Common Sense Yield

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Optimistic

“We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.”

Wish Success

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Love

“Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.”

Feelings

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Angry

“There are words which cut like steel.”

Cutting Steel

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