Honor� de Balzac
France
20 May 1799 // 18 Aug 1850
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20 May 1799 // 18 Aug 1850
Writer
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Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds
Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance
It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice
In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only
In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or not, become the judges of their parents
In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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