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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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
Horace de Saint- Aubin
Onoreh deh Balzaḳ
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Onore de Bal'zak
Hônôrê đơ Banzăc
Honore de Balzak
de. Balzac
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
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There are no principles there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
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In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.
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Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.
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When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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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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Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.
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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.
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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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Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.
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For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?
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Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people but it has also a sublime faith in them.
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Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?
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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes it is the life of another that we revere within us then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.
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Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.
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No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.
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