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The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Isn’t it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking.. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Tone is light in another shape. In music, instruments perform the functions of the colours employed in painting (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
The glory of surgeons is like that of actors, who exist only in their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me... To break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy! (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul’s infinite (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct? (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
The mistakes committed by women are almost always the result of her faith in the good and her confidence in the truth (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
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 (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Even when exercising their greatest duplicity, women are always sincere because they are yielding to some natural feeling (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Man’s condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance (Honore De Balzac Quotes)