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Necessity is often the spur to genius.Honore De Balzac
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.Honore De Balzac
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.Honore De Balzac
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We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.Honore De Balzac
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Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.Honore De Balzac
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There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.Honore De Balzac
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I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.Honore De Balzac
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.Honore De Balzac
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Hope is a light diet but very stimulating.Honore De Balzac
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.Honore De Balzac
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To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.Honore De Balzac
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.Honore De Balzac
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.Honore De Balzac
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.Honore De Balzac
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Envy is the most stupid of vices for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.Honore De Balzac
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If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!Honore De Balzac
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.Honore De Balzac
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless.Honore De Balzac
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.Honore De Balzac
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Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions envy is only moved to malice.Honore De Balzac
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.Honore De Balzac
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True love is eternal infinite and always like itself. It is equal and pure without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.Honore De Balzac
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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness but with energy and above all with illusions I pulled through them all.Honore De Balzac
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Believe everything you hear said of the world nothing is too impossibly bad.Honore De Balzac
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Our worst misfortunes never happen and most miseries lie in anticipation.Honore De Balzac
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.Honore De Balzac
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.Honore De Balzac
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.Honore De Balzac
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.Honore De Balzac
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Love is the poetry of the senses.Honore De Balzac
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.Honore De Balzac
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!Honore De Balzac
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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.Honore De Balzac
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.Honore De Balzac
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.Honore De Balzac
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.Honore De Balzac
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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.Honore De Balzac
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.Honore De Balzac
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.Honore De Balzac
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.Honore De Balzac
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.Honore De Balzac
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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.Honore De Balzac
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.Honore De Balzac
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.Honore De Balzac
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Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.Honore De Balzac
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.Honore De Balzac
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.Honore De Balzac
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Finance, like time, devours its own children.Honore De Balzac
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.Honore De Balzac
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.Honore De Balzac
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.Honore De Balzac
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.Honore De Balzac
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.Honore De Balzac
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.Honore De Balzac
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.Honore De Balzac
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.Honore De Balzac
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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.Honore De Balzac
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.Honore De Balzac
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.Honore De Balzac
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.Honore De Balzac
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.Honore De Balzac
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A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.Honore De Balzac