Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Quote by Honore De Balzac

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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...

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of...

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of...

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that...

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that...

Power is the capacity to distort information

Power is the capacity to distort information

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...

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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

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

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule....

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule....

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the...

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the...

Courage is the fire that burns in the cold,dark room of fear and doubt that...

Courage is the fire that burns in the cold,dark room of fear and doubt that...

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...

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world

And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape...

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape...

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides...

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides...