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Glory is the sun of the dead.
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Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. We show no more mercy to the affection that reveals its utmost extent than we do to another kind of prodigal who has not a penny left.
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Pierrette, like all those who suffer more than they have strength to bear, kept silence. Silence is the only weapon by which such victims can conquer; it baffles the Cossack charges of envy, the savage skirmishings of suspicion; it does at times give victory, crushing and complete, for what is more complete than silence? It is absolute; it is one of the attributes of infinity.
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired, is something; but to inherit his property afterwards: that is a real pleasure!
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
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Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, each at an interval of three hundred years and all three from the same region, were, politically speaking, the Archimedean screws of their age, — at each epoch a Thought which found its fulcrum in the self-interest of mankind.
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But does not happiness come from the soul within?
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.
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Manners are the hypocrisy of nations.
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