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12346 quotesAll humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Emotions
Honore De Balzac
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Fortune
Honore De Balzac
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Government
Honore De Balzac
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Equality
Honore De Balzac
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Investments
Honore De Balzac
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Painters and Painting
Honore De Balzac
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Pleasure
Honore De Balzac
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Modesty
Honore De Balzac
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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Action
Honore De Balzac
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Fools and Foolishness
Honore De Balzac
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Passion
Honore De Balzac
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Power
Honore De Balzac
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Forgiveness
Honore De Balzac
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Love
Honore De Balzac
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Vocation
Honore De Balzac
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Exaggeration
Honore De Balzac
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You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
Imitation
Honore De Balzac
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Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Toni Cade Bambara
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
Beauty
George Bancroft
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
Dishonesty
George Bancroft
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
Slander
George Bancroft
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The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
Public
George Bancroft
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I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
Stupidity
Antonio Banderas
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I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
Communication
John Banham
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Mistakes
Tallulah Bankhead
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun