Tag: Honore de Balzac
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
Honore de Balzac
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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 Balzac
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
Honore de Balzac
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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore de Balzac
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de Balzac
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
Honore de Balzac
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Honore de Balzac
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Honore de Balzac
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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father’s craft.
Honore de Balzac
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
Honore de Balzac