Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Honoré Balzac
Honoré de Balzac.
| Born | Honoré Balssa May 20, 1799 Tours, France |
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| Died | August 18, 1850 Paris, France |
French writer. Best known for Cousin Bette (1846) and The Human Comedy, a collection of novels and novellas.
The repository contains four quotes from Honoré de Balzac.
Society, like the Roman youth at the circus, never shows mercy to the fallen gladiator.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
What is art? Nature concentrated.
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.
