Balzac’s classic quotations (selected 50 sentences)

In ordinary daily life, everyone is very familiar with those classic quotations. The quotations are short, simple, and Characteristics of emphasizing literary style. Are you still looking for excellent classic quotations? Below is a collection of Balzac's classic quotations (50 selected sentences) that I have carefully compiled for reference only. Everyone is welcome to read!

1. Continuous labor is the iron law of life and the iron law of art.

2. In Paris, there are ears on the steps, mouths on the doors, and eyes on the windows; the most dangerous thing is talking at the door. The last words spoken to each other before leaving were like postscripts in letters, revealing secrets as dangerous to the one who heard them as to the one who spoke them.

3. The only thing I can trust is my lion-like courage and invincible energy to work.

4. A farmer, a waterman, and a soldier are identical fragments of the same people, parts of the same circle, and the same tool with different handles. Labor is like a riddle to them, and they are looking for the answer until the day they die. They spend their lives doing miserable extra work, and as a reward they often get a small bench to sit at the door of a thatched hut.

5. Love is a religion. The cost of believing in this religion is much higher than that of other religions; and it will disappear soon. When faith passes, it is like a naughty child, and you have to get into trouble everywhere. .

6. Without hope, a person cannot maintain his faith, preserve his spirit, or preserve his inner purity.

7. When a person goes to bed, he can say to himself: I have not judged other people’s works, I have not asked anyone to believe them, and I have not used my own intelligence as a knife to mess up the hearts of innocent people. I didn't say anything mean to destroy other people's happiness. I didn't interfere with the happiness of a stupid and chaotic person. I didn't make unreasonable troubles with really talented people. I didn't bother to use wisecracks to gain easy success. In short, I never violated my rules. Faith… isn’t it a great comfort to be able to say that to yourself?

8. The husband thinks about taking care of his wife far less often than the lover thinks about getting close to his mistress; the prisoner thinks about closing the prison door far less often than the prisoner thinks about escaping; therefore, despite the many difficulties, lovers and prisoners should still succeed.

9. Opportunities are extremely rare, but he has three conditions for success, which are "the legs that can run like a deer, the leisure time to walk on the road, and the patience of a Jew.

10. A businessman does not want to go bankrupt, just like a general is never prepared to suffer defeat and only be half a businessman.

11. Our shattered hopes, aborted abilities, failed careers, and suffering. Frustrated ambitions often accumulate and turn into jealousy.

12. Be educated to burn wills and be a decent person, loved and respected by others, rather than a repeat thief. A thief will be punished aggravated by the law in five cases, and sent to the execution ground in Gray, where he will be hated and discredited.

13. You have not penetrated into the depth of the image, and you have no use for it.

14. What he (Note: Napoleon) failed to accomplish with his sword, I will accomplish with my pen.

< p> 15. Gaining wealth through hard work is the greatest pleasure in life.

16. Destroyers and builders are both phenomena of will: one is preparation, the other is. Complete the work; the former seems to be an evil genius, the latter seems to be a good genius; give glory to the one and forget to the other. The evil one awakens the vulgar people from their dreams and admires him. I am humbled, but the good man remains silent.

17. A decent man doesn’t even have enough time to work, so how can he waste his time on dressing himself up and doing things that lower his status? I would rather sacrifice my life all at once than reduce the price to zero.

18. If the artist is not buried in his work without thinking, like Godos in the Roman legend rushing into the crevice of the volcano, like a soldier rushing into the fortress without thinking; if the artist is in the crater of the volcano, It is not like working like a miner who is buried when the ground collapses; if he is distracted by the difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one, he is like those people in fairy tales who persuade people with reason in order to get their princess. If all the evil ways are broken, then the work cannot be completed and can only be left to rot in the factory. Production is impossible, and the artist can only watch his genius die.

19. The truly remarkable thing about a true scholar is that he secretly did a lot of great work but was not famous for it during his lifetime.

20. The budget is not a cash box, but a sprinkler: the more water it pumps up and sprinkles out, the more prosperous the country will be.

21. Only those who know how to control their shortcomings and do not let these shortcomings control themselves are strong.

22. A person who has a premonition of a bright future, when he moves forward on the difficult road of life, is like an innocent prisoner heading to the execution ground, and he has no need to be ashamed at all.

23. The key to unlocking all science is undoubtedly the question mark. Most of our great discoveries should be attributed to "how", and the wisdom of life probably lies in asking "why" in everything.

24. Never reveal your heart without knowing the other person’s details.

25. Any poor, suffering woman's heart is like a sponge in desperate need of love. With just a drop of emotion, it will swell immediately.

26. Beauty is a veil, which is often used to cover up many shortcomings.

27. The key to unlocking all science is undoubtedly a question mark. To what should most of our great discoveries be attributed? And the wisdom of life probably lies in asking why everything happens?

28. It’s important for people to know each other and understand each other’s hearts!

29. The three classes created by modern customs are: workers, thinkers; and those who do nothing. Thus there are three fairly complete formulas for the expression of all kinds of life, from the poetic and wandering novels of the Ronin to the monotonous and hypnotic history of the Constitutional King: the busy life; the artist's life; the elegant life.

30. Delicacy and elegance are the inevitable strengths of a simple person. In him, his conversation is more interesting, no less than the rhetoric of a bishop.

31. Unlucky love is often like an unpaid loan note from a reliable debtor, which will cost you your own money.

32. Any poor, suffering woman's heart is like a sponge in desperate need of love. With just a drop of emotion, it will immediately expand.

33. Such a home is not a tomb, but something worse than a tomb: a monastery. In this cold environment, he looked at their wife with loveless eyes: with severe pain, he noticed the narrow-mindedness of her thoughts, which was reflected in the way her hair clung to her low-cut and slightly concave forehead; There was a rigid and stubborn expression on his upright face, which soon made him hate the disguised gentleness that had previously deceived him.

34. Great politicians are just acrobats. If they are not careful, they will watch their most beautiful buildings collapse.

35. No matter which class you are in, even the most evil-minded people will respect you for your down-to-earth life and your honest character.

36. Without great desire, there will be no great genius.

37. A person who can think is a person with boundless power.

38. There is at least one advantage in being unlucky: you can recognize who your true friends are.

39. Love is a combination of an infinite emotion in our hearts and a tangible and beautiful ideal in the world.

40. Love is a kind of beautiful porcelain. Once broken, no matter how clever the repair is, it will always leave marks. Therefore, it is even more important that we take care of it from the beginning.

41. Things in the world are never absolute, and the results completely vary from person to person. Suffering is a stepping stone for genius... It is a fortune for capable people, but it is an abyss for the weak.

42. Only when the true love of a close friend is compared with the cruelty of the world, can a person suddenly realize it.

43. A person who can think is truly a person with boundless power.

44. Truly talented people are always kind, frank, straightforward and never reserved.

45. We appreciate the kind of real politicians, just like we appreciate the kind of people who have written the most magnificent poems in the world for us. Always look to the future, stay ahead of your destiny, and transcend your rights.

46. Intelligence is the lever that moves society.

47. Whoever respects himself will be respected.

48. The wisdom of life probably lies in asking why when things happen.

49. It is unimaginable how much trouble the law will cause a sad person. That simply makes people hate civilization and find the customs of barbarians cute.

50. When young people are caught in injustice, they dare not look in the mirror of conscience; adults are not afraid to face it; the difference between the two stages of life lies entirely in this point. ;