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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.
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
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Onoreh deh Balzaḳ
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Ônôrē de Balzaq
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Ūnūrīh dī Balzāk
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Onore de Bal'zak
Hônôrê đơ Banzăc
Honore de Balzak
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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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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
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The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.
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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
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Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.
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When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.
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Rich women need not fear old age their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
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The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.
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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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