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Society Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
- Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
- Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
- The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.
- Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear…
- A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
- It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral ideas only
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