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Quotations by author » Honore de Balzac
French Novelist He developed the realistic novel describing French society in Comedie Humaine (1841). 1799-1850 |
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| A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism |
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| A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage |
| Courage; Teachers and teaching |
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| A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. |
| Husbands |
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| A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness |
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| A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. |
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| A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent |
| Pride; Talent |
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| A mother who is really a mother is never free. |
| Mothers |
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| A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. |
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| A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea. |
| Cute love; Love |
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| A woman who has made fun of her husband can love him no more |
| Marriage; Women |
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| All human power is a compound of time and patience. |
| Power; Time |
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| All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. |
| Art; History; Passion |
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| An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. |
| Fulfilment |
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| And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world |
| Bureaucracy |
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| Believe anything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad |
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