Honore de Balzac Quotes

French - Novelist | May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Honore de Balzac

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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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PowerTrueHardStrikingOften

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.

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TimeDaySimpleHusbandEvery Day

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

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PassionHistoryArtReligionWithout

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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MarriageEverythingMonsterMust

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 from the year, the latter from human life.

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LifeSpringYouthWorldDirection

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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What is art? Nature concentrated.

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NatureArtConcentrated

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

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TiredYouGenuinePleasureProperty

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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PowerActionPoliticalPossible

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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