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
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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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.
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
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Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.