Honore de Balzac Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)
Honore de Balzac quotes and sayings page 8 (novelist). Here's quote # 71 through 80 out of the 104 we have.
“Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.”
“To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.”
“When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.”
“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.”
“A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.”
“A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.”
“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.”
“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.”
“When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.”
“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”
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