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• Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

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  Past, Men, Sorrow

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• Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

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  Men, Unexpected, Caprice

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Elixir of Life”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

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  Betrayal, Eye, Men

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• When women love, they forgive everything...

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving

  "The Muse of the Department". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1843.

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• With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

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  Grateful, Men, Secret

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• Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

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  Looks, Sometimes, Moments

  Honore de Balzac (1899). “A Passion in the Desert”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

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  Men, Feet, Sick

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• One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

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  Life, Mind, Habit

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

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• What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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  Mean, Feelings, Charm

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• Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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  Selfishness, Courtesy, Veneer

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.58, The Floating Press

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• Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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  Marriage, Fighting, Monsters

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• Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

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  Women, Keyboards, Study

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.82, The Floating Press

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• As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

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  Coffee, Struggle, Moving

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• I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

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  Men, Yield, Common Sense

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Lily of the Valley”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

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  Crush, Shy, Persons

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• Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

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  Coffee, Moving, Fall

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• Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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  Passion, Men, Ideas

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• In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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  Love, Mistake, Men

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• Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

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  Dupes, Emotion, Victim

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• Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

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  Girl, Suffering, Pleasure

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• Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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  Funny, Nature, Stupid

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• A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

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  Doe, Martyr, Great Writers

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• We love because we love.

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  Love, Love Is

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Commission in Lunacy”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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  Men, Raised, Estimation

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