"To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought." ― Honore de Balzac Topic(s): Politics Tags: exhausted, those More From Honore de Balzac "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul." "Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane." "Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin." More In Politics "When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody’s right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day."― William J. Clinton "It’s amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."― M. H. Abrams "University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."― Henry A. Kissinger