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• Temperament is the thermometer of character.

  Honore de Balzac

  Character, Thermometers, Temperament

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• The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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  Parent, Victory, Defeat

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• No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

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  Men, Giving, Wife

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.487, The Floating Press

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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.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beautiful, Horse, Sight

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• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

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  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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  Time, Power, Compounds

  Honore de Balzac (2009). “Eugenie Grandet”, p.141, The Floating Press

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• The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

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  Inferiority, Helping, Modesty

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.202, The Floating Press

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• Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

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  Liberty, Triumph, Able

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• When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

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  Coffee, Army, Ideas

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• Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Possession

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• To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, True Love, Men

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• A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

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  Husband, Found Happiness, Wife

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• Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

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  Feelings, Life Is

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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.

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  Energy, Illusion, Periods

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• The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

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  Men, Illegal, Profit

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• A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Wife, Yoke

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.92, The Floating Press

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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

  Funny Love, First Love, Love Is

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• The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

  Honore de Balzac

  Giving, Deals

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• The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

  Honore de Balzac

  Kings, Home, Feelings

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• If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Judging, Feelings

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.94, The Floating Press

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• No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

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  Love, Yield, Natural

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• Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

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  Hate, Hatred, Soul

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• Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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  Love, Wine, Tea

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• I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

  Honore de Balzac

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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• Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

  Honore de Balzac

  Money, Riches, Wealth

  "At the Sign of the Cat and Racket". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1830.

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