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• Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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  Wine, Misfortunes

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• A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

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  Husband, Hate, Found Happiness

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• Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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  Judging, Stifling, Conscience

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.149, The Floating Press

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• It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

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  Wise, Strong, People

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• The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

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  Real, Splendor

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.66, 谷月社

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• [Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

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  Inspiration, Communication, Past

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• Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

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  Loss, Men, Choices

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• Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

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  Mean, Twelve, Crowns

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• A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

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  Heart, Pride, Men

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• Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

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  Mother, Passion, Vices

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• Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

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  Love, Sea, Soul

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• Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

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  Beautiful, Strong, Powerful

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• Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

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  Kindness, Rocks, Hands

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

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  Lying, Law, Names

  "Seraphita". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1834.

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• Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

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  Daughter, Children, Ambition

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• It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

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  Dream, Book, Writing

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• Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

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  Liberty, Trouble, Despotism

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• The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

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  Heart, Pride, Criminals

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• Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

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  Paris, Doe, Good French

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• Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

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  Jealousy, Heart, Envy

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• A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

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  Family, Country, Strong

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.76, The Floating Press

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• Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

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  Feel Good, Feelings, Mind

  Honore de Balzac (1950). “Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet”

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• Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

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  Ideas, Justice, Brain

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• The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

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  Karma, Spiritual, Memories

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.101, 谷月社

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• Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

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  Demand, Firsts, Should

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “A Woman at Thirty”, p.122, The Floating Press

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