French - Novelist | May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
Honore de Balzac
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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
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