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Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.
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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Balzac
Horace de Saint- Aubin
Onoreh deh Balzaḳ
Lord R'Hoone
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Ūnūrīh dī Balzāk
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Hônôrê đơ Banzăc
Honore de Balzak
de. Balzac
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For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation for most young men, it is a woman for some women, it is a man and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.
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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful it ends all.
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A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.
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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.
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Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.
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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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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.
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Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.
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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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