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Quotes by Honore De Balzac
- I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
- It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
- 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.
- It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.
- It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
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