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| Honore de Balzac Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. | Amusement |
| 2 | Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. | Bureaucracy |
| 3 | Cruelty and fear shake hands together. | Cruelty |
| 4 | Evil is a form of good, of which the results are not immediately manifest. | Evil |
| 5 | If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible. | Friendship |
| 6 | Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. | Friendship |
| 7 | We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never so wretched or so happy as we say we are. | Happiness |
| 8 | Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. | Hatred |
| 9 | The more one judges, the less one loves. | Judgement |
| 10 | To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. | Laughter |
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