HONORÉ DE BALZAC QUOTES XXVI

French novelist and playwright (1799-1850)


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What sentiment of admiration must rise in the soul of a philosopher on discovering that there is, perhaps, but one single principle in the world, as there is but one God; and that our ideas and our affections are subject to the same laws which cause the sun to rise, the flowers to bloom, the universe to teem with life!

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Physiology of Marriage


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Tags: admiration


Everywhere you find the man of thews and sinews who toils, and the lymphatic man who torments himself; and pleasures are everywhere the same, for when all sensations are exhausted, all that survives is Vanity—Vanity is the abiding substance of us, the I in us.

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Gobseck


Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

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Seraphita

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Persons without minds are like weeds that delight in good earth; they want to be amused by others, all the more because they are dull within.

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The Vicar of Tours


A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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A Daughter of Eve


Discretion is the best form of calculation.

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The Girl with the Golden Eyes


The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others--existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

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Seraphita

Tags: Memory