Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Quote by Honore De Balzac

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up...

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up...

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating...

A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating...

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their...

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their...

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her...

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her...

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion...

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion...

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that...

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that...

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in...

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in...

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to...

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to...

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.