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It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.
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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Balzac
Horace de Saint- Aubin
Onoreh deh Balzaḳ
Lord R'Hoone
Ônôrē de Balzaq
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Honoreé De Balzac
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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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Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.
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Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.
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To man, faith to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?
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Pity is woman's sweetest charm.
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It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.
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Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.
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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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Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?
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The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
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A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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