Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Honore De Balzac quotes, Honore De Balzac sayings, and Honore De Balzac proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves man from catching the complaint the second time.Honoré de Balzac
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves man from catching the complaint the second time.Honoré de Balzac
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Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.Honoré de Balzac
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.Honoré de Balzac
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.Honoré de Balzac
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.Honoré de Balzac
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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.Honoré de Balzac
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The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.Honoré de Balzac
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.Honoré de Balzac
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.Honoré de Balzac
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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.Honoré de Balzac
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Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.Honoré de Balzac
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.Honoré de Balzac
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Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.Honoré de Balzac
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.Honoré de Balzac
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.Honoré de Balzac
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It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.Honoré de Balzac
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The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.Honoré de Balzac
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Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.Honoré de Balzac
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Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.Honoré de Balzac
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The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred.Honoré de Balzac
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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.Honoré de Balzac
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.Honoré de Balzac
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The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.Honoré de Balzac
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.Honoré de Balzac
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Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.Honoré de Balzac
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.Honoré de Balzac
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.Honoré de Balzac
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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin, - occupation.Honoré de Balzac
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We do not attach ourselves permanently to any possessions, excepting in proportion to the trouble, toil and longing which they have cost us.Honoré de Balzac