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• Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

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  Love, Two, Sorrow

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• The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

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  Real, Splendor

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.66, 谷月社

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• Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Excess

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.259, The Floating Press

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• As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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  People, Generosity, Twenties

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• Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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  Silence, Feelings, Wells

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.300, The Floating Press

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• For avarice begins where poverty ends.

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  Avarice Greed, Poverty, Ends

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• The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

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  Safe, Boxes, Deposits

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• Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

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  Mind, Mouths, May

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• Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

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  Girl, Education, Children

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.10, 谷月社

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• How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

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  Yield, Envy, Vices

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• Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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  Marriage, Wedding, Monsters

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• God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

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  God, Thoughtful, Seekers

  "Seraphita: Works of Balzac".

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• I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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  Race, Literature, Finance

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• The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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  Men, Originality, Talent

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• A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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  Men, Literature, Poor

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

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• A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

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  Running, Husband, Thinking

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• There are words which cut like steel.

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  Cutting, Steel

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• A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

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  Marriage, Husband, Genius

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• If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

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  Suicide, Wall, Writing

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• When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

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  Husband, Hatred, Temptation

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• It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

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  Years, Perfection, History

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• The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

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  Inspirational, Facts, Impossible

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• Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

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  Women, Keyboards, Study

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

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• An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

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  Pounds, Timidity

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• I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

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  Men, Yield, Common Sense

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Lily of the Valley”, p.5, The Floating Press

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