Honor� de Balzac
France
20 May 1799 // 18 Aug 1850
Writer
20 May 1799 // 18 Aug 1850
Writer
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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
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea
A mother who is really a mother is never free
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband
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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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