Quotes by Honore De Balzac

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after...

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

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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two...

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

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused...

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

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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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

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Love is a game in which one always cheats.

#Cheating, #Cute, #Love