Honore De Balzac Quotes, Father Quotes, Men Quotes

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

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Necessity is the spur of genius.

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Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

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All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

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Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

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By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

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Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

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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.

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Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.

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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

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Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

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While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

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