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

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  God, Thoughtful, Seekers

  "Seraphita: Works of Balzac".

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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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• 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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• Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

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  Men, Reign, Mischief

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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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• There are words which cut like steel.

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  Cutting, Steel

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

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  Business, Political, Secret

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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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• Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

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  Powerful, Sin, Repentance

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.59, 谷月社

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• A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

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  Love, Coquetry, Virtuous

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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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• God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

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  Player, Men, Heaven

  "Socrate Chrétien" as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 911-917), 1922.

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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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• Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

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  Memories, Mind, Peculiar

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• Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

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  Grief, Heart, Giving

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• Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

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  Love Is, Men, Delight

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• Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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  Love, May, Immensity

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.109, The Floating Press

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• No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

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  Forgiveness, Pedestal, Lovers

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• A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

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  Inspirational, Good Morning, Marriage

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• Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

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  Love, Heart, Light

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• No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

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  Sea, Lines, Latitude And Longitude

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• Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

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  Light, Diets

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• The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

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  Love, Hope, Passion

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.135, The Floating Press

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