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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

French writer

Lived from: 1799 - 1850

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 20 may 1799 Died: 18 august 1850

  • It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
  • Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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  • Finance, like time, devours its own children.
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  • A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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  • A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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  • All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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  • Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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  • Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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  • Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
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  • Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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  • I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
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  • If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
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  • If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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  • In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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  • It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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  • Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
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  • Modesty is the conscience of the body.
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  • Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
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  • Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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  • No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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  • Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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  • Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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What are the most famous quotes from Honoré de Balzac?

The two most famous quotes from Honoré de Balzac are:

  • "Finance, like time, devours its own children."
  • "A mother who is really a mother is never free."

When did Honoré de Balzac live?

Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 and died in the year 1850.