Honore de Balzac Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)
Honore de Balzac quotes and sayings page 7 (novelist). Here's quote # 61 through 70 out of the 104 we have.
“Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.”
“Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.”
“Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!”
“Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?”
“Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.”
“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”
“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.”
“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”
“Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.”
“Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.”
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