I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Honore de Balzac
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
politics
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
chance
race
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
intelligence
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
key misers
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
conscience
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
enemies
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
fortune crime
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
temper maid destiny
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
virtues
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
vices
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
courtesy
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