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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Advice

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.

Honore De Balzac Topic: All About Love

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Cruelty

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Exaggeration

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Exaggeration

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Finance and Economics

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Finance and Economics

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Friendship

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is a genuine pleasure.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Inheritance

Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from?

Honore De Balzac Topic: Livery

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Men and Women

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Men and Women

Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

Honore De Balzac Topic: Men and Women

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Modesty

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Mothers

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Passion

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Passion

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Pleasure

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Politics Government

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honore De Balzac Topic: Politics Government

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