Noble Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

10 Noble quotes by Honoré de Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac contributes ten concise reflections on noble conduct. Though the set is brief, each sentence carries his rich narrative weight, offering a compact glimpse into his perspective on high moral standing.

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For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

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“Noble natures cannot dwell in this world,”

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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

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Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child.…

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All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded;…

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Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about…

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Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward…

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What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden…

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

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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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The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the…

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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