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Religion Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
- When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
- Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.
- Sects differ more in name than tenets.
- A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
- Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes…
- All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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