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It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
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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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
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Our heart is a treasury if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
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True love rules especially through memory.
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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.
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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.
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A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.
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There is nothing original all is reflected light.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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