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Pity is woman's sweetest charm.
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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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 weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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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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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.
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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
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Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.
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Passion is born deaf and dumb.
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.
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Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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