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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.
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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Journalist
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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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A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.
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A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.
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Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.
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The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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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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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
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During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.
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A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
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Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.
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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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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.
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