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Great Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- There is something great and terrible about suicide.
- The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
- There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
- Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
- Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
- A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
- Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
- When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
- It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and…
- He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
- If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving…
- The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because…
- The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
- [Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it…
- They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.
- Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
- Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.
- During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.
- Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.
- Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
- Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you…
- He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the…
- However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and…
- I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
- To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient…
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