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Honore de Balzac
French Novelist
Born: May 20, 1799
Died: Aug 18, 1850
Great Husband Love Man Nothing Woman
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. Honore de Balzac
Good Yourself Nothing Others Ease Impediment Good Terms Terms Greater Than Being Ill
Love is a game in which one always cheats. Honore de Balzac
Love Game Love Is Cheats Always Which
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. Honore de Balzac
Youth Intelligence Passion Fools Insight Give Observed Sort Idiots Brings
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. Honore de Balzac
Life You Mother Fears Long Dramas See Tender Hour Joys Terrible Succession Now Soft
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. Honore de Balzac
Husband First Lover Other Way Runs Himself Mistress Always His Second Thinks
What is art? Nature concentrated. Honore de Balzac
Art Nature Concentrated
Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better. Honore de Balzac
Love Together Better Hatred Every Increase Must Constantly Hating Between Fresh Always Loving Persons Moment Who Reasons Found Two
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft. Honore de Balzac
Man Father Become Would Would-Be Rather He Longer Leads Know Baker His Than Curious Craft Egyptians Succeed Among Compelled
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. Honore de Balzac
Our Pursue Colors Bleed Like Existence Wanted Which Whole
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. Honore de Balzac
Me Marriage Husbands Remind Majority Trying Play Violin
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. Honore de Balzac
Woman Passion Duration Original Resistance
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. Honore de Balzac
Man Woman Poor Compared Creature
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. Honore de Balzac
Love Great Great Love Affairs End Champagne Start
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. Honore de Balzac
Our Kind Study Enchantment Surroundings Lends
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. Honore de Balzac
Man Drains Entire Vocation Color Existence Unfulfilled
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. Honore de Balzac
Hypocrisy Nation Manners
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. Honore de Balzac
Society Intrigue Solve Perfect Look Maze Which Hard
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. Honore de Balzac
Life Youth World Enemies Innocent Year Spring Those Latter Would Direction Take Had Human Former Human Life Who Away
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. Honore de Balzac
Marriage Monster Everything Must Contend Familiarity Incessantly
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! Honore de Balzac
Peace Science Fate Liberty Political Nation Political Liberty Gifts Demands Blood Itself Tax Heavy Which
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. Honore de Balzac
Country Tries Paris Becomes Provincial Ape Ridiculous
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. Honore de Balzac
Love Respect Women First Tenacious Demand Make Without Exist Women Are Esteem Cannot Them Should
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. Honore de Balzac
Nature Animals Fools Society Only Makes Dumb Owe
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. Honore de Balzac
Tired You Property Relative Pleasure Something Genuine His Afterwards Inherit Whom
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? Honore de Balzac
Fruit Blended Spontaneously Child Sentiments Beings Image Two
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? Honore de Balzac
Life Time Key Society Suicide Suitable More Paris Vogue Moreover Mystery Skeptical
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