Quotes by Honore de Balzac

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.