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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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• Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

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  Passion, Law, Forgiving

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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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• Passion is born deaf and dumb.

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  Passion, Dumb, Deaf

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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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• 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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• Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

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  Love, Passion, Past

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• She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

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  Heart, Pride, Wife

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.97, The Floating Press

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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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• It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

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  Beautiful, Grief, Ambition

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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 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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• Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

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  Love Is, Height, Way

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

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  Lying, Overcoming, Wickedness

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• Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

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  Dream, Home, Gentleman

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• Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

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  Pain, Men, Suffering

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.15, 谷月社

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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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• Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

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  Loyalty, Winning, Victory

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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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• 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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• Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

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  Energy, Charity

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