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Honore de Balzac
No man should...
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Nothing is a...
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with...
The motto of...
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
The majority of...
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutang trying to play the violin.
To kill a...
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine...
I am laughing...
I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never...
There is no...
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power.
Source: La Muse...
Manners are the...
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Source: Quoted in: Andr? Gide, Journals 1889...
Physically, a man...
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
Source:...
To promote laughter...
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
Source: In...
What is art?...
What is art? Nature concentrated.
Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...
Solitude is fine,...
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Source:...
Power is not...
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Source: In...
The more one...
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...
The glory of...
The glory of surgeons is like that of actors, who exist only in their lifetime and whose talent is no longer...
Vocations which we...
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our...
We cannot confront...
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
Source: Madame de la...
You may imitate,...
You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
Source: In
All human power...
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Source: In Wisdom of the Ages...
With monuments as...
With monuments as with men, position means everything.
Source: Droll Stories,...