Quote: I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: Behind every great fortune there is a crime. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: You may imitate, but never counterfeit. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: Modesty is the conscience of the body. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: A woman must be a genius to create a good husband. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: 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. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: A mother who is really a mother is never free. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: Finance, like time, devours its own children. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. [Honore De Balzac]
Quote: Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. [Honore De Balzac]