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• Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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  Beauty, Power, Government

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• The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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  Loss, Secret, Crime

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.108, Library of Alexandria

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• A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

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  Love Is, Imagination, Novelists

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• A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

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  Atheist, Atheism

  "Le catéchisme social" by Honore de Balzac, Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, (p. 137), 1933.

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• The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

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  Women, Mean, Liberty

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “A Woman at Thirty”, p.121, The Floating Press

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• The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

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  Summer, Spring, Flower

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• The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

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  Joy, Soul, Taste

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• We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

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  Exaggeration Is, Literature, Bad Grades

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• Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

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  Women, Human Nature, Virtue

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.67, The Floating Press

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• When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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  Law, Vices, Literature

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.56, The Floating Press

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• Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

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  Ugly, Sin, Ugliness

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• Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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  Hypocrisy, Manners, Nations

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.63, The Floating Press

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• Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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  Humility, Body, Modesty

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.366, The Floating Press

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• What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

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  May, Fantasy, Dusk

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• A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

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  Atheist, Eye, Chance

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• There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

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  Art, Philosophy, History

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• To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

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  Laughter, Joining In, Joining

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• Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

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  Bird, Males, Break Out

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• Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

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  Men, Suffering, Rivals

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• We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

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  Success, Wish

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• Resignation is a daily suicide.

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  Suicide, Resignation

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• It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

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  Lying, Overcoming, Wickedness

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• I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

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  Ideas, Action, Contemplation

  Honore De Balzac (2011). “Louis Lambert”, p.75, The Floating Press

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• Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

  Honore de Balzac (1884). “Cousin Pons”, p.35, Library of Alexandria

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• Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

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  Angel, Men, Judging

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