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
suffering devotion feels
To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
beauty power government
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.
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Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.
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The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
inspire suffering desire
Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?
love-is imagination novelists
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.
forgiveness forgiving
When women love us they forgive everything.
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No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
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Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?
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Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.
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A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.
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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.