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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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• When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

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  Funny, Dog, House

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

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  People, Mind, Black

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

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  Wise, Strong, People

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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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• Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

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  Suicide, Moral, Dressings

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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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• 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, 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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• Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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  Love, Two, Feelings

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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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• 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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• All happiness depends on courage and work.

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  Life, Happiness, Courage

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