Best Honore de Balzac Sayings
- Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. Affair
- Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. Action
- The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste. Chaste
- It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs… Absurd
- Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. Bad Ass
- The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. Converses
- A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. Duplicity
- Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. Contend
- Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. Animal
- Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. Despair
- Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. Apprehension
- Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make… All
- The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. Duration
- What is art? Nature concentrated. Art
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. Becomes
- A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. Artist
- At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. Beauty
- Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. Bearing
- Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. Alone
- Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. Amount
- In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. Bottom
- Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy… Constancy
- Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. Acceptance
- Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! Bitter
- Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? Key
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