"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

Balzac, Honore De on Emotions
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"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."

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"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."

Balzac, Honore De on Exaggeration
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"Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society."

Balzac, Honore De on Fools and Foolishness
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"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

Balzac, Honore De on Forgiveness
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"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."

Balzac, Honore De on Fortune
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"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."

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"If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life."

Balzac, Honore De on Amusement
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"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."

Balzac, Honore De on Government
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"Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies."

Balzac, Honore De on Hatred
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"You may imitate, but never counterfeit."

Balzac, Honore De on Imitation
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"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."

Balzac, Honore De on Inheritance
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"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."

Balzac, Honore De on Investments
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"To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect."

Balzac, Honore De on Laughter
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"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."

Balzac, Honore De on Love
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"Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation."

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"A woman must be a genius to create a good husband."

Balzac, Honore De on Marriage
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"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."

Balzac, Honore De on Marriage
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"Modesty is the conscience of the body."

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"Finance, like time, devours its own children."

Balzac, Honore De on Money
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"A mother who is really a mother is never free."

Balzac, Honore De on Mothers
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"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

Balzac, Honore De on Painters and Painting
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"Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless."

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

Balzac, Honore De on Pleasure
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"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."

Balzac, Honore De on Power
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"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."

Balzac, Honore De on Self-acceptance
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"Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence."

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

Balzac, Honore De on Vocation
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"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues."

Balzac, Honore De on Women
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