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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
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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de. Balzac
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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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Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.
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To man, faith to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?
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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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One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.
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It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.
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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity in woman, fantasy.
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People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.
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