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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
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
Woman
Sweetest
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Pity
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All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded they want to be proud of the domination they accept.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.
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God is the poet men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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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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To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.
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It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
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We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.
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We love because we love.
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The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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