Honoré de Balzac

(1799–1850) · French Novelist

Was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.

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Honoré de Balzac

(1799–1850) · French Novelist

Was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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