Honore de Balzac on catch
Honore de Balzac141 quotes“Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.”
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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