| 35 Famous Quotes by Honore de Balzac
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“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”
Bureaucracy Quotes |
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“Love is a game in which one always cheats.”
Cheating Quotes |
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“Cruelty and fear shake hands together”
Cruelty Quotes |
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“Love is a game in which one always cheats.”
Cute Quotes |
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“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”
Finance Quotes |
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“It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the dishes”
Husbands Quotes |
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“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
Judgement Quotes |
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“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.”
Misfortune Quotes |
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“Modesty is the conscience of the body.”
Modesty Quotes |
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“Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.”
Moments Quotes |
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“What is art? Nature concentrated.”
Nature Quotes |
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“To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.”
Relatives Quotes |
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“God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces
which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
[Fr., Dieu est le poete, les hommes ne sont que les acteurs. Ces
grandes pieces qui se jouent sur la terre ont ete composees dans
le ciel.]”
World Quotes Source: Socrate Chretien
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“Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from?
[Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]”
Livery Quotes Source: Physiologie du Mariage (N.Q.S. 5, IV, 499, V, 195)
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“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
Passion Quotes |
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“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.”
Exaggeration Quotes |
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“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”
Mothers Quotes |
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“Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.”
Vocation Quotes |
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“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes |
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“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 to say pretty things from time to time.”
All about love Quotes |
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“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
Friends / friendship Quotes |
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“Cruelty and fear shake hands together.”
Cruelty Quotes |
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“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.”
Exaggeration Quotes |
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Honore de Balzac Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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