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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
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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.
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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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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
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How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.
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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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Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.
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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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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Several sorts of memory exist in us body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.
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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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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.
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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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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
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Reading brings us unknown friends
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Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
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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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When women love, they forgive everything...
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
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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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