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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.


Honoré de Balzac

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W.E.B. DU BOIS It is the fortune of France. [Fr., C'est la fortune de France.]
NICEPHORUS The world only gives money to those who have converted their time into products.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their goo...
DICK GEPHARDT It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better,...
HONORé DE BALZAC Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.
HONORé DE BALZAC Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the o...
HONORé DE BALZAC All happiness depends on courage and work.
HONORé DE BALZAC The more one judges, the less one loves.
HONORé DE BALZAC Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
HONORé DE BALZAC Behind every great fortune there is a crime
HONORé DE BALZAC The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, bu...
HONORé DE BALZAC Hemen hepimiz her sabah, yüreğimiz aşka susamış, içimiz içimize sığmayarak yola çıkarız....
HONORé DE BALZAC Reading brings us unknown friends
HONORé DE BALZAC Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of t...
HONORé DE BALZAC [...]O que está faltando? Um nada, mas um nada que é tudo. Vocês têm a aparência da vida mas n�...
HONORé DE BALZAC Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
HONORé DE BALZAC Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
HONORé DE BALZAC However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secre...
HONORé DE BALZAC Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.
HONORé DE BALZAC Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influe...
HONORé DE BALZAC -Хүү минь, чи надад ямар ч өргүй гэж бодож явах эрхийг б�...
HONORé DE BALZAC No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to l...
HONORé DE BALZAC Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cu...
HONORé DE BALZAC Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely s...
HONORé DE BALZAC We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
HONORé DE BALZAC A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the ...
HONORé DE BALZAC For avarice begins where poverty ends.
HONORé DE BALZAC In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tai...
HONORé DE BALZAC He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the ...
HONORé DE BALZAC Борьба имеет свою прелесть. Бороться - значит жить, пус�...
HONORé DE BALZAC Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren't we suffoc...
HONORé DE BALZAC You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch...
HONORé DE BALZAC The rout, that dreary review of fashionable fineries, that parade of well-dressed self-infatuations,...
HONORé DE BALZAC And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
HONORé DE BALZAC To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-f...
HONORé DE BALZAC La Société ne fait-elle pas de l'homme, suivant les milieux où son action se déploie, autant d'h...
HONORé DE BALZAC Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
HONORé DE BALZAC Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORé DE BALZAC Es fehlt uns eben leider nie an Geld für unsere Launen. Wir markten nur um den Preis für nützlich...
HONORé DE BALZAC Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their...
DICK GEPHARDT State funds, private equity, venture capital, and institutional lending all have their role in the l...
JAY SAMIT Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who ha...
COCO CHANEL The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of ...
CHARLES STURT Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried ...
MARCEL PAGNOL For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who ha...
PLATO Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is ...
EMMELINE PANKHURST No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect. [Fr., Nul n'est conten...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Inteligence lives longer than beauty.
OSCAR WILDE Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The value of life is best appreciated by those who have only a short time to live.
TAPAN GHOSH Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When you look at their health habits, they had plenty of sleep and they had just as much free time a...
DR. ZORBA PASTER "Those who think beauty is only skin deep, have lost part of their vision." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
EURIPIDES Time is only for those who value to time it.
ANUJ SOMANY Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk ...
ALAN BENNETT Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their...
GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune w...
PATTY DUKE Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.
HELEN REDDY Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Vetera...
PETE HEGSETH People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG We really look at it as a great opportunity to highlight Mount Clemens to out of town visitors to th...
ARTHUR MULLEN Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.
PICO IYER Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Only the minds of those who do not have family values. Will condemn a family as a criminal for choos...
HAMLET GARCIA As far as I know, the fund capital involved is not as large as you just mentioned. And this capital ...
KONG QUAN Fortune is like a wall that falls on those who lean on it.
VIKRANT PARSAI The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
AYN RAND There are only two sorts of doctors: those who practice with their brains, and those who practice wi...
WILLIAM OSLER I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortu...
PATTY DUKE There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it
NAPOLEON HILL Peace is only available to those who want it, and only possible to those who will hug their enemy to...
BRETT BIAGGIO Most of the soldiers we're going to see came back two months ago and have had time to demobilize, .....
JOSEPH HOFFMAN Young mothers who apply for housing assistance in our nation's capital literally could be grandm...
MATTHEW DESMOND The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only t...
DAVID BLUNKETT Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of m...
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ Life is a university, you will keep learning new things all the time. The tombstone will be your deg...
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and d...
THOMAS KEMPIS Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The man or woman who concentrated on Things can hardly be trusted to use those things for the essent...
E. S. FIELDS Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fortune is no real thing.
But men who cannot bear what comes to them
In Nature's way, give the...
MENANDER It is not the unloved who initiate disaffection, but those who cannot love because they love only th...
PAULO FREIRE But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going...
MARK WAHLBERG Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who comm...
DENIS DIDEROT Those who have made it to the top have only done so through hard work and time conversion.
SUNDAY ADELAJA It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdepende...
WILLIAM COWPER BRANN Those who complain that fate is against them will have a hard time finding happiness in their lives
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over yo...
WALT DISNEY The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believin...
LAURA HILLENBRAND I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his churc...
JOHN CONNOLLY The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
SAMUEL BUTLER The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Also those who have appointments with their physician can receive a flu shot as part of their visit.
AMY JOHNSON That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have s...
PLATO A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, an...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
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HONORE DE BALZAC The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
HONORE DE BALZAC In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Anybody who would like to travel as an archaeologist of mores and observe men instead of rocks could...
HONORE DE BALZAC Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism a...
HONORE DE BALZAC Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
HONORE DE BALZAC When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give...
HONORE DE BALZAC Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
HONORE DE BALZAC We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
HONORE DE BALZAC Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
HONORE DE BALZAC All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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HONORE DE BALZAC You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
HONORE DE BALZAC Modesty is the conscience of the body.
HONORE DE BALZAC A mother who is really a mother is never free.
HONORE DE BALZAC The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
HONORE DE BALZAC Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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HONORE DE BALZAC To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
HONORE DE BALZAC I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
HONORE DE BALZAC Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people eve...
HONORE DE BALZAC Coffee falls into the stomach ... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop ... t...
HONORE DE BALZAC Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
HONORE DE BALZAC The man who can but sketch his purpose beforehand in words is regarded as a wonder, and every artist...
HONORE DE BALZAC If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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HONORE DE BALZAC We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
HONORE DE BALZAC Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gon...
HONORE DE BALZAC God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have b...
HONORE DE BALZAC What is art? Nature concentrated.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Love is a game in which one always cheats.
HONORE DE BALZAC Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
HONORE DE BALZAC Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.
HONORE DE BALZAC Cruelty and fear shake hands together
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HONORE DE BALZAC The more one judges, the less one loves.
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HONORE DE BALZAC One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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HONORE DE BALZAC A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
HONORE DE BALZAC Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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HONORE DE BALZAC It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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HONORE DE BALZAC No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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HONORE DE BALZAC I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
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HONORE DE BALZAC If we all said people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
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HONORE DE BALZAC With monuments as with men, position means everything.
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HONORE DE BALZAC One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
HONORE DE BALZAC A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism
HONORE DE BALZAC Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.
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HONORE DE BALZAC A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the sam...
HONORE DE BALZAC Genius is intensity
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HONORE DE BALZAC Economized love is never real love
HONORE DE BALZAC Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
HONORE DE BALZAC They must have the defects of their qualities.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
HONORE DE BALZAC Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
HONORE DE BALZAC Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
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HONORE DE BALZAC Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give...
HONORE DE BALZAC A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way...
HONORE DE BALZAC Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief
HONORE DE BALZAC A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
HONORE DE BALZAC Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself
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HONORE DE BALZAC A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness
HONORE DE BALZAC Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts
HONORE DE BALZAC Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devo...
HONORE DE BALZAC It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist...
HONORE DE BALZAC Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
HONORE DE BALZAC A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZAC There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
HONORE DE BALZAC A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it...
HONORE DE BALZAC We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
HONORE DE BALZAC Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
HONORE DE BALZAC A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's inf...
HONORE DE BALZAC It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violi...
HONORE DE BALZAC Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exis...
HONORE DE BALZAC Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
HONORE DE BALZAC Man is young as long as he can repeat his emotions; woman, as long as she can inspire them
HONORE DE BALZAC Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.
HONORé DAUMIER Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE