Tag: Honore de Balzac
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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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