Human nature Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

10 Human nature quotes by Honoré de Balzac

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Balzac’s sharp social eye is distilled into ten short passages that expose the ambitions, flaws, and desires that drive people in any era.

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Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

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Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

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But does not happiness come from the soul within?

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Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility,…

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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner…

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For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a…

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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who…

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Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows…

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Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying…

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“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.”

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“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the…

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In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,…

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My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the…

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A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

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Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to…

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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion…

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All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive…

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