There is something great and terrible about suicide.
Quote by Honore De Balzac
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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
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Honore De Balzac Quotes
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
- The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
- When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
- First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
- Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
- Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
- A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Best Quotes
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- The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.
- The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
- As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
- In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
- Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
- In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
- Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
- Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
- Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.