Honore De Balzac Quotes

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
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Honore de Balzac
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BirthDate
20 May, 1799
DeathDate
18 August, 1850
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