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Honore de Balzac Quotes about Heart

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Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Honore de Balzac

Heart, Wealth, Treasury

Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.75, Library of Alexandria

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

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Heart, Winning, Opportunity

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

Honore de Balzac

Heart, Climbing, Hatred

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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Jealousy, Fear, Heart

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Life, Heart

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

Honore de Balzac

Grief, Heart, Giving

White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

Honore de Balzac

Heart, Hair, White

Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Lily of the Valley”, p.152, The Floating Press

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Heart, Light

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

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Flower, Heart, Intuition

Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.88, 谷月社

Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

Honore de Balzac

Heart, Doe, Gloves

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Honore de Balzac

Gratitude, Heart, Men

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

Honore de Balzac

Heart, Pride, Men

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

Honore de Balzac

Heart, Pride, Criminals

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

Honore de Balzac

Jealousy, Heart, Envy

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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Women, Fall, Heart

Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

Honore de Balzac

Heart, Angel, Looks

Honore De Balzac (1958). “Cousin Bette”

She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

Honore de Balzac

Heart, Pride, Wife

Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.97, The Floating Press

You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Heart, Teeth

Economized love is never real love.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Real, Heart

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Honore de Balzac

Heart, Way, Affection

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

Honore de Balzac

Heart, Skulls, Sight

The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Girl, Heart

But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

Honore de Balzac

Falling In Love, Heart, Feelings

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

Honore de Balzac

Kindness, Heart, Character

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

Real, Adversity, Heart

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