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• To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

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  Money, Gold, Add

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• Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

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  Math, Numbers, Intellectual

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• We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

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  Solitude, Answers, Pleasure

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• Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

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  Art, Lying, Real

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.90, 谷月社

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• For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

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  Pain, Shadow, World

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.39, The Floating Press

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• Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

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  Taken, Poison, Glory

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• Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

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  Kindness, Heart, Character

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• All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

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  Fate, Men, Joy

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• Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

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  Men, Clothes, Pay

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• Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

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  Catholic, Sublime, Church

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• Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

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  Love, Poetry, Expansion

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• Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.

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  Way, Mark, Anxious

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• An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

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  Kings, Husband, Wife

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• What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

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  Impossible, Virtue

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• There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

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  Light, Originals

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• The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.

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  Love, Eye, Men

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.134, The Floating Press

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• This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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  Work, Pride, Mind

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

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  Education, Children, Stupid

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.207, The Floating Press

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• Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

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  Evil, Ends, Journalist

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• To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

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  Women, Two, Doubt

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• Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

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  Perfect, Mazes, Looks

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.39, The Floating Press

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• Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

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  Love, Marriage, Blessing

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• While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

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  Seeking

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• Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

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  Success, Mistake, Ambition

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.99, The Floating Press

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