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Thought Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
- To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
- 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…
- Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is…
- However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and…
- I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
- A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.
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