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.

Quote by Honore De Balzac

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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy...

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy...

Power is the capacity to distort information

Power is the capacity to distort information

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

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...

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the...

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the...

Economized love is never real love

Economized love is never real love

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...

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...

They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding...

They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding...

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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...

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

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

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...

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

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.

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.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is...

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is...