Honor de Balzac Quotes

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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The fact is that love is of two kinds one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

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Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.

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Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.

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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a mans life would only serve to make a chronological table a fools notion of history.

Honor de Balzac