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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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
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Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
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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.
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
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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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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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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.
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.