Honore de Balzac Quotes

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

Honore de Balzac

• Torture
• Toleration
• Sorcerer
• Encyclopedists

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Let's make Jeb Bush explain his plan to give millionaires another massive tax cut.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Give
  • Plan
  • Tax

• It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Always
  • Never
  • Boxes

• Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Community
  • Europe

• I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Women

• My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Great
  • Night
  • Parents

• Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

  

  Piers Anthony
  • Writing
  • Practice

• I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Sweet
  • Sexy
  • Flower

• I've always have loved reality programmes. 'Big Brother,' 'I'm A Celebrity,' they're my guilty pleasure.

  

  Amy Childs
  • Reality
  • Brother
  • Celebrity

• Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Singing
  • Listening
  • Hearing

• There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Success
  • Self
  • Acceptance

• As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, "Now I'm being treated unfairly."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Mind
  • Argument
  • Folks

• The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Great
  • Respect

• We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • War
  • Situation
  • Face

• If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Feeling
  • Confidence
  • Retains

• I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Sympathy
  • Feel Like
  • Victimize

• Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • End
  • Consciousness
  • Torture

• Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

  

  John Yoo
  • Conversation
  • Torture
  • Interrogation

• Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Torture
  • Toleration
  • Sorcerer