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• What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

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  Powerful, Government, Order

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• But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

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  Passion, Disorder

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• Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

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  Ideas, Criticism, Genius

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• It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

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  Dream, Book, Writing

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• The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

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  Karma, Spiritual, Memories

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.101, 谷月社

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• Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

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  Paris, Doe, Good French

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• According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

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  Men, Sheep, Sea

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• The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

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  Heart, Pride, Criminals

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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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  Cat, Blood, Maids

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• The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

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  Gymnastics, Mind, Doe

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• Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

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  Feel Good, Feelings, Mind

  Honore de Balzac (1950). “Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet”

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• It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

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  Wise, Strong, People

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• In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

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  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

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  Family, Country, Strong

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.76, The Floating Press

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• All happiness depends on courage and work.

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  Life, Happiness, Courage

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• Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

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  Two, People, Sublime

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• Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

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  Feelings, Ignorant, Pieces

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• Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

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  Ideas, Paris, Pet

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.117, The Floating Press

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• Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

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  Love, Men, Rivals

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• Passion is born deaf and dumb.

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  Passion, Dumb, Deaf

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• If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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  Art, Eye, Hands

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• There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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  Women, Fall, Heart

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• Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

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  Suicide, Moral, Dressings

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• There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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  Envy, Mediocrity, Pity

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• The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

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  Hate, Men, Hatred

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