Honore De Balzac Quotes

The more one judges, the less one loves.
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
What is art? Nature concentrated.
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
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Honore de Balzac
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20 May, 1799
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18 August, 1850
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