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• Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

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  People, Matter, France

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• With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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  Punishment, Expectations, Soul

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• Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

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  Spiritual, Angel, Science

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• When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

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  Marriage, Passion, Mean

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• When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

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  Fashion, Good Man, Littles

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• Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

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  Vices, Audacity, Innocence

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• Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

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  Lying, Men, Gambling

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• In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

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  People, Bed, Accepting

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• With monuments as with men, position means everything.

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  Mean, Men, Position

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• Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

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  Clothes, Veils, Advantage

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• Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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  House, Literature, Ruins

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• Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

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  Jealousy, Passion, Play

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• Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

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  Love, Self Love

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• They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

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  Stupid, Bed, World

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• Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

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  Ocean, Society, Levels

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• The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

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  Love, Selfish, Passion

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1841-1842.

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• A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

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  Moving, Knowledge, Men

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• The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

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  Death, Science, Actors

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• There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

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  History, Principles, Events

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• Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

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  Smile, Motherhood, Tears

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.171, The Floating Press

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• Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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  Power, Political, Principles

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• A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

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  Mother, Strong, Prayer

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• Glory is the sunshine of the dead

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  Sunshine, Glory

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• From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

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  Stitches, Thread, Needlework

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• Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

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  Men, Yield, Order

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