Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac Quotes

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Philosophical

“Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.”

Feelings Pieces Ignorant

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Honore de Balzac

Novelist

Vulnerable

“But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.”

Heart Feelings Falling In Love

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Love

“Love knows nothing of modesty.”

Love Knows

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Love

“True love rules especially through memory.”

Memories

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Confident

“I am not deep, but I am very wide.”

Wide

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Grateful

“We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.”

Wretched

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Melancholic

“By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.”

Self Unfortunate

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Ambitious

“Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.”

Mistake Success Ambition

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Funny

“Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.”

Moving Gratitude Winter

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Philosophical

“Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?”

Thinking Men Law

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Inspired

“Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.”

Passion Justice Victim

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Philosophical

“Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.”

Men Struggle Pride

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