Honore de Balzac on cruelty
Honore de Balzac141 quotes“Cruelty and fear shake hands together.”
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The more you judge, the less you love.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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