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A French novelist and playwright. Honore de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoleon I in 1815.
Here are some famous quotes by Honore de Balzac.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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Necessity is often the spur to genius.
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
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All happiness depends on courage and work.
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Hope is a light diet but very stimulating.
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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
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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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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!
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We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.
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To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.
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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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Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
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Envy is the most stupid of vices for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless.
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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.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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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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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness but with energy and above all with illusions I pulled through them all.
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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.
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There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.