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 BALZACHe has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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We love because we love.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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