Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture. Honore de Balzac More Quotes by Honore de Balzac More Quotes From Honore de Balzac Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin. Honore de Balzac ugliness ugly sin The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth. Honore de Balzac adversity real heart Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects. Honore de Balzac advantage clothes veils Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers. Honore de Balzac clothes pay men Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns. Honore de Balzac gowns never-quit priests Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders. Honore de Balzac neighbor men order Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons. Honore de Balzac irises wife men Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves! Honore de Balzac women realizing order Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency. Honore de Balzac delicacy doe sometimes A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage. Honore de Balzac chance eye atheist A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice. Honore de Balzac mishaps clothes vices A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed! Honore de Balzac law clever men A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct. Honore de Balzac waste may men Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts. Honore de Balzac mud anger heart Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion. Honore de Balzac emotion men needs Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity. Honore de Balzac curiosity compassion feelings Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter. Honore de Balzac gratitude winter moving It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence. Honore de Balzac men believe facts The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument. Honore de Balzac earth names weather What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude. Honore de Balzac charm feelings mean
