What is art? Nature concentrated.

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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Balzac in The Physiology of Marriage (1829)
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The more one judges, the less one loves.

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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

quote by Balzac
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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

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