The daily banner., 1919-07-28
Proverbs Of Balzac

1OnOfS Q0 BdIZac, TO WnOm mas
long been accorded the primacy
among the realists of fiction, deserves
| also the distinction of being acknow-
| lodged the leader among novelists
whose sententious observations and
| epigrammatic asides as their plot un-
| folds adapt their works to the quo
ter's purpose. From Balzacs great
romanticist rival, Victor Hugo, more
ornate and poetical sentiments could
be culled, but they are not of the
kind so likely to remain in the mem
ory. Were all Balzac's shrewd little
sayings, epitomes often of common
sense-som etimes, it is true, with a
flavor of cynicism-collected, they
would prove not unworthy of compari
son with the ''Mdxims" of La Roche
foucauld. In proof of which there
follow twoscore, representing half as
many novels:
Noble conduct makes even ignoF-
ance seem worthy
I1OpG- Is IuC i1I0E1SI hail vi COuI-
age. n
Botany came later than flowers. >,
In a long run it is. with profess
sion as with marriage We cease to
remark anything but its draWhacks. !,
The anast mn s ii iiEs s
Illusions.
IF you count your sheep the wolf
will eat them
9'Talent in man is much what beau
! ty is in woman-simply promise. ="
Fame, like the sun, hot and lu-
minous, at distance, is cold as the
summit Of an Alp when you approach
! it."
after Sunday there will come
Monday"
ITO forget is the great secret OF
strong creative natures.">
Fear makes for itself IDOLS
Power consists not in striking
| hard or often, but in striking
straight"
Gratitude is fools word; one
finds it in the dictionary, but it is
not in the heart of man.
Humanity, socially speaking, is
not placed between good and bad, but
between bad and worse"
'"The husband who leaves nothing
| to be desired is a lost man."
''The world always ends by con-
demning those whom it accuses"
cit often takes two men to make a
perfect lover.
Legality is powerful adverb; 1t
supports many fortunes"
"Fortuneless people must De fault
less
"The sayings of great men are like
silver gilt in use; constant repetition
destroys their !uster.'
I'm every poet there is hidden a
pretty woman of the worst kind.
SIN love first sight is second sight.
Between doing good and doing
evil the only difference is a good or
a bad conscience; one is as much
trouble as the other"
"The moment the mind becomes
finical the manners follow suit
eve are never so fortunate Or un-
fortunate as people say we are.''
Hope is the flower Of desire, faith
the fruit of conviction.
|sThe fall of a great man is always
in the same ratio as the height he
has reached
GLORY is a poison best taken in
small doses
Liberty gives birth to anarchy,
anarchy leads to despotism. and do
spotism brings back liberty
Death is the conservation of genius
HE who can govern woman can
govern nation.
Nothing demands more attention
than things which seem natural; one
is always suspicious enough of the
extraordinary.
"All human power is a compound
of pationec and time.
"Troy and Napoleon are only po-
ems
"A man who has vice is always
the valet of his enemies when they
know how to pull the string
Confidence is accepted as power,
of which it is the outwrad sign"
"Mistrust a woman who speaks
of her virtue"
1--WE never lack money for our ca
prices; it is only the price of useful
and necessary things that we haggle
about"
eyes and no-is not that the his
tory of every controversy-relig'o Gus
political and literary.
"a man who lives in the world is
born the slave of public opinion.