“Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.”
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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
“The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.”
Source: A Woman of Thirty
“A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!”
“Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.”
“The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.”
“Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.”
“Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.”
“Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.”
“In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.”
Source: Cousin Betty
“God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.”
“Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.”