When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

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Power is action

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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

By : Honore de Balzac

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