# Quote — Honoré de Balzac, The Atheist's Mass

> A young man is to crime what a penny is to the X.

- Author: [Honoré de Balzac](https://www.leafyquotes.com/honore-de-balzac.md)
- Book: [The Atheist's Mass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/honore-de-balzac/the-atheists-mass.md)
- Original (fr): Un jeune homme est au crime ce qu'une pièce de cent sous est au X.
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> He did the housework as Philopoemen sawed his wood, communicating the simplicity of doing to all his actions, maintaining his dignity, for he seemed to understand that the goal ennobles everything.

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