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• The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

  Honore de Balzac

  Literature, Virtuous Woman, Virtuous

  "The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou".

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• Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

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  Kindness, Rocks, Hands

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

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  Husband, Hate, Found Happiness

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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.

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  Family, Happiness, Mothers Day

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.185, The Floating Press

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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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  Voice, Echoes, Faithful

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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.

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  Wedding, Flower, Wife

  "Honorine". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1845.

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• No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

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  Society, Pity, Victim

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• Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

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  Loss, Men, Choices

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• A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

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  Girl, School, May

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• The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Tyranny

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• Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Law, Names

  "Seraphita". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1834.

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• A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

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  Heart, Pride, Men

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• Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

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  Mean, Twelve, Crowns

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• Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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  Writing, Color, Political

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• At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

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  Promise, Fifteen, Talent

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• Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

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  Ideas, Justice, Brain

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• Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

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  Love, Sea, Soul

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• The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

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  Keys, Discovery, Asking

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• Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

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  Jealousy, Heart, Envy

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• Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

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  Demand, Firsts, Should

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “A Woman at Thirty”, p.122, The Floating Press

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• Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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  Judging, Stifling, Conscience

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.149, The Floating Press

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• In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

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  Beauty, World, Figures

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• [Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

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  Inspiration, Communication, Past

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• Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

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  Liberty, Trouble, Despotism

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• Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

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  Weed, Marijuana, Degrees

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