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• Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

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  Men, Sheep, Iron

  Honore de Balzac (2010). “Cousin Bette”, p.293, The Floating Press

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• Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

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  Pity, Charm, Sweetest

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• A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

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  Husband, Found Happiness, Wife

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• Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

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  Feelings, Life Is

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• The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

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  Kings, Home, Feelings

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• Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

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  Lying, Worry, Anticipation

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• The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

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  Women, Wife, Rooms

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

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  Novelty, Deceptive, Delightful

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• The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

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  Letting Go, Husband, Lying

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• There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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  Inspirational, Willpower, Talent

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• Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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  Goes On, Forget

  Honore de Balzac (2010). “Cousin Bette”, p.706, The Floating Press

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• Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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  Strong, Creative, Secret

  Honoré de Balzac (2007). “Cesar Birotteau and Gaudissart the Great”, p.317, Wildside Press LLC

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• Temperament is the thermometer of character.

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  Character, Thermometers, Temperament

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• Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

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  Poverty, Cease, Avarice

  Honore de Balzac (2009). “Lost Illusions”, p.16, The Floating Press

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• A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

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  Naked, Skirts, Nudity

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• He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Peace

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• Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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  Art, Passion, Romance

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• Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

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  Men, Possession

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

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  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The more you judge, the less you love.

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  Judging, Judgement, Criticism

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• For avarice begins where poverty ends.

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  Avarice Greed, Poverty, Ends

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• A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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  Love, Men, Sea

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• People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

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  Love, People, Suspicion

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• A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

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  Men, May, Waste

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