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• It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

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  Love, Life, Marriage

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• It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in
  the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman
  dancing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beautiful, Horse, Sight

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• To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Men, Law

  "New Outlook, Volume 58". Book edited by Alfred Emanuel Smith, Outlook Publishing Company, Inc. (p. 272), 1898.

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• Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Wine, Tea

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• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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  Being Yourself, Work, Love Yourself

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• The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

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  Inferiority, Helping, Modesty

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.202, The Floating Press

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• When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

  Honore de Balzac

  Coffee, Army, Ideas

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• Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

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  Christian, Men, Events

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• Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

  Honore de Balzac

  Money, Riches, Wealth

  "At the Sign of the Cat and Racket". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1830.

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• Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

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  Liberty, Triumph, Able

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• Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

  Honore de Balzac

  Hate, Hatred, Soul

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• No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Giving, Wife

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.487, The Floating Press

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• To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, True Love, Men

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• The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

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  Men, Illegal, Profit

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• Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Wealth, Treasury

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.75, Library of Alexandria

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• If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Judging, Feelings

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.94, The Floating Press

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• Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

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  Half, Virtue

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• Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mind, Great Minds, Virtue

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• The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Judging, Literature

  "'Le Père Goriot' ('Father Goriot')". Book by Honoré de Balzac. Part II, 1835.

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• Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

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  Journey, Poetry, Painful

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• Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

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  Mother, Doe, World

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• All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

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  Energy, Illusion, Periods

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• Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mean, Men, Law

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• Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

  Honore de Balzac

  Happiness, Marriage, Couple

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• To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

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  Suffering, Devotion, Feels

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