Honor� de Balzac
France
20 May 1799 // 18 Aug 1850
Writer
20 May 1799 // 18 Aug 1850
Writer
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Modesty is the conscience of the body
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity
It is easy to sit up and take notice, what is difficult is getting up and taking action
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time
Finance, like time, devours its own children
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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