French - Novelist | May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Honore de Balzac
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
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Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
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