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Quotes by Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac

“Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.”

“A husband is whats left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.”

“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But dont think its going to be easy. Its hard!”

“Genius is intensity”

“Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.”

“The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself”

“Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it”

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.

There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Hope is a light diet but very stimulating.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.