Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Quote by Honore De Balzac

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they...

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they...

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint...

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint...

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you...

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you...

A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism.

A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal...

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal...

Cruelty and fear shake hands together

Cruelty and fear shake hands together

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Economized love is never real love

Economized love is never real love

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...

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect...

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect...

What is art? Nature concentrated.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Genius is intensity

Genius is intensity

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured,...

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured,...

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get...

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get...

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other...

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other...

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares....

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares....

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender,...

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender,...

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great...

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great...