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• If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

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  Spring, Years, Enemy

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• In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

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  Horse, Fall, Men

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Atheist's Mass”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

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  Heart, Skulls, Sight

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• During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

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  Simplicity, Storm, Captains

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• Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

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  Desire, Doe, Loyal

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• Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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  Marriage, Law, Maintenance

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• Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Men, May

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• Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

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  Book, Hands, Doubt

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• The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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  Running, Men, Literature

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.110, The Floating Press

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• Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

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  Law, Conventions

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• Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

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  Marriage, Fun, Husband

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• Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

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  Twelve, Widows, Handsome

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• All we are is in the soul.

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  Soul

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• It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

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  Men, Race, Touching

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.108, The Floating Press

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• Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

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  Evil, Cures, Quacks

  Honore de Balzac “A Distinguished Provincial at Paris”, Library of Alexandria

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• Sects differ more in name than tenets.

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  Names, Religion, Sects

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• Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

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  Love, Love Is, Harmony

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.82, The Floating Press

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• Necessity is the spur of genius.

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  Spurs, Genius

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• France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

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  Country, Government, France

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• One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

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  Flames, Two, Hypocrisy

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• The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

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  Love, Girl, Heart

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• Love is a game in which one always cheats.

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  Cute Love, Cheating, Love Is

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• Love which economizes is never true love.

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• Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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  Children, Loss, Her Beauty

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

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• Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

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  Law, May, Humans

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