All Honore De Balzac Quotes
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
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Equality
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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