Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

"Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own."
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"Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own."
Honoré de Balzac Père Goriot
"The more one judges, the less one loves."
Honoré de Balzac Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal
"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, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life."
Honoré de Balzac Père Goriot
"However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?"
Honoré de Balzac Père Goriot
"It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide."
Honoré de Balzac Père Goriot
"“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?”"
Honoré de Balzac Père Goriot
"A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over."
Honoré de Balzac
"Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue."
Honoré de Balzac
"The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband."
Honoré de Balzac
"Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love."
Honoré de Balzac
"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."
Honoré de Balzac
"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment."
Honoré de Balzac
"To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought."
Honoré de Balzac
"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."
Honoré de Balzac
"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."
Honoré de Balzac
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
Honoré de Balzac
"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity."
Honoré de Balzac
"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."
Honoré 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."
Honoré de Balzac
"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
Honoré de Balzac
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