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Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.
Honore de Balzac
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Honore de Balzac
Age: 52 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 20
Died: 1851
Died: August 19
Art Critic
Dramaturge
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
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France
Balzac
Horace de Saint- Aubin
Onoreh deh Balzaḳ
Lord R'Hoone
Ônôrē de Balzaq
Jeune ceélibataire
Onore de Balzak
Honorato De Balzac
H. Balzak
Honoreé De Balzac
H. Balzac
Horace de S.- Aubin
Honoriusz Balzac
Un Jeune ceélibataire
Lord O'Rhoone
Ūnūrīh dī Balzāk
R'Hoone
Onore de Bal'zak
Hônôrê đơ Banzăc
Honore de Balzak
de. Balzac
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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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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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
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Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.
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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
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Genius is answerable only to itself it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.
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Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.
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Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.
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Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.
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A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Necessity is often the spur to genius.
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Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
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God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
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Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
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