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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
— Honore De Balzac
By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.
— Honore De Balzac
an honest man is the man who keeps his own counsel, and will not divide the plunder.
— Honore De Balzac
You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.
— Honore De Balzac
If I'd had a man of my own, I'd have followed him ... down to hell.
— Honore De Balzac
No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
— Honore De Balzac
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
— Honore De Balzac
All happiness depends on courage and work.
— Honore De Balzac
No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.
— Honore De Balzac
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
— Friedrich Engels
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
— Honore De Balzac
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
— Honore De Balzac
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
— Honore De Balzac
In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.
— Honore De Balzac
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.
— Honore De Balzac
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
— Honore De Balzac
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
— Honore De Balzac
Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.
— Honore De Balzac
Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.
— Honore De Balzac
Nothing about me surprises me.
— Honore De Balzac
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
— Honore De Balzac
Money brings everything to you; even your daughters.
— Honore De Balzac
Life cannot go on without a great deal of forgetting.
— Honore De Balzac
Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.
— Honore De Balzac
Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.
— Honore De Balzac
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
— Honore De Balzac
Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.
— Honore De Balzac
Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats
— Honore De Balzac
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
— Honore De Balzac