Honoré de Balzac

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• The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

• To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only t...

• Today brings the sad, glad tidings that Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has passed from that darkness which had fallen upon her path through this life, o...

• They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of ...

• The tranquility and peace that a scholar needs is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys are showered on us by the exer...

• The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule...

• The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acq...

• psychologist Mothers with marriageable daughters ought to look out for men of this stamp, men with brains to act as protecting divinity, ...

• Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, sons of the same soil, at intervals of three centuries were, in a political sense, the levers of Ar...

• 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...

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