“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”
— Honore de Balzac
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Category: finance
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation,
“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!”
— Honore de Balzac
Author: Honore de Balzac
Category: peace
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Nobody loves a woman because she is
“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.”
— Honore de Balzac
Author: Honore de Balzac
Category: love
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But reason always cuts a poor figure
“But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.”
— Honore de Balzac
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Category: positive
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A good husband is never the first
“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.”
— Honore de Balzac
Author: Honore de Balzac
Category: marriage
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Ideas devour the ages as men are
“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”
— Honore de Balzac
Author: Honore de Balzac
Category: nature
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The art of motherhood involves much silent,
“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
— Honore de Balzac
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Category: art
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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in
“Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?”
— Honore de Balzac
Author: Honore de Balzac
Category: society
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion,
“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
— Honore de Balzac
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Category: art
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion,
“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
— Honore de Balzac
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Category: history
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One should believe in marriage as in
“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”
— Honore de Balzac
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Category: anniversary
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