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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac
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Honore de Balzac
Age: 52 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 20
Died: 1851
Died: August 19
Art Critic
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Balzac
Horace de Saint- Aubin
Onoreh deh Balzaḳ
Lord R'Hoone
Ônôrē de Balzaq
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Ūnūrīh dī Balzāk
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Hônôrê đơ Banzăc
Honore de Balzak
de. Balzac
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White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.
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God is the poet men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.
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Thought is a key to all treasures the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, Serve all, love one.
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No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.
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The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.
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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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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.
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