Balzac, Honore De
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Balzac, Honore De
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Balzac, Honore De
Investments
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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Emotions
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
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Equality
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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Exaggeration
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Hatred
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Forgiveness
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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Fools and Foolishness
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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Friends and Friendship
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Government
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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Fortune
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Power
You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
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Imitation
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
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Modesty
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Passion
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
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Inheritance
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
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Laughter
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Marriage
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Marriage
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
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Manners
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Love
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Mothers
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
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Money
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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Painters and Painting
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Pleasure
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Self-acceptance
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
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Amusement
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
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Action
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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Vocation
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues.
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Women