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• The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Judging, Literature

  "'Le Père Goriot' ('Father Goriot')". Book by Honoré de Balzac. Part II, 1835.

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• Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

  Honore de Balzac

  Fire, Flames, Genius

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• Temperament is the thermometer of character.

  Honore de Balzac

  Character, Thermometers, Temperament

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• There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Temptation, Cures

  Honore de Balzac (2006). “Le Pere Goriot: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.217, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

  Honore de Balzac

  Kings, Home, Feelings

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• Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

  Honore de Balzac

  Liberty, Triumph, Able

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• When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

  Honore de Balzac

  Coffee, Army, Ideas

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• To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, True Love, Men

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• Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Possession

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• Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

  Honore de Balzac

  Goes On, Forget

  Honore de Balzac (2010). “Cousin Bette”, p.706, The Floating Press

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• The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Men, Lovers

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.58, The Floating Press

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• A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jealousy, Husband, Wife

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• A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Wife, Lovers

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• A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, May, Waste

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• Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Men, Feelings

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• He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Peace

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• People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, People, Suspicion

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• If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Judging, Feelings

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.94, The Floating Press

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• Love is the poetry of the senses.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Valentines Day, Valentine's Day

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Wife, Yoke

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.92, The Floating Press

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• Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

  Honore de Balzac

  Christian, Men, Events

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• Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Passion, Romance

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• Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mean, Men, Law

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• Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Doe, World

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• Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Greatest Fear, Anticipation

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