Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac
Honoré de Balzacbal.zak], born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 May 1799
CountryFrance
keys joy intellectual
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
running men literature
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
passion men ideas
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
passion giving village-idiots
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
silence feelings wells
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
fake-people duplicity flow
A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
husband men lovers
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
power political literature
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
smile pregnancy literature
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
soul literature habit
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
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Love is a game in which one always cheats.