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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.
Honore de Balzac
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Honore de Balzac
Age: 52 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 20
Died: 1851
Died: August 19
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Balzac
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Onoreh deh Balzaḳ
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second with a husband it runs the other way.
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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
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Necessity is often the spur to genius.
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No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.
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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?
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Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
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Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.
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But does not happiness come from the soul within?
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