Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
HONORE DE BALZACThe heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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