Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
HONORE DE BALZACWhere poverty ceases, avarice begins.
HONORE DE BALZACThe boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
HONORE DE BALZACThe more you judge, the less you love.
HONORE DE BALZACA jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
HONORE DE BALZACThe 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.
HONORE DE BALZACA man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
HONORE DE BALZACThere is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
HONORE DE BALZACWhen Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
HONORE DE BALZACHatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
HONORE DE BALZACHe who best knows the world will love it least.
HONORE DE BALZACGod is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
HONORE DE BALZACOne should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
HONORE DE BALZACIt is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
HONORE DE BALZACPeople exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
HONORE DE BALZACNoble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
HONORE DE BALZACPhysically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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