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Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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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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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
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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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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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