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Life Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is…
- A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and…
- The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than…
- Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
- If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former…
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his…
- The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all…
- All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to…
- When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
- [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…
- Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
- Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world…
- She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride,…
- Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
- All happiness depends on courage and work.
- A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and…
- What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character,…
- And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
- Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must…
- There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle