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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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• Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

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  Memories, Character, Writing

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• Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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  Wine, Misfortunes

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• In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

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  Family, Children, Judging

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• The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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  Love, Chivalry, Motto

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• For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

  Honore de Balzac

  Passion, Giving, Village Idiots

  "'Les Célibataires' ('A Bachelor's Establishment')". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

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• Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

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  Destiny, Maids, Bent

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• Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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  Desire, Vices, Desire To Learn

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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.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Yield, Common Sense

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

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• Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Unexpected, Caprice

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Elixir of Life”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

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  Believe, Men, Facts

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• When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

  Honore de Balzac

  Fall, People, Rich

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• A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

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  Clever, Men, Law

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• A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

  Honore de Balzac

  Betrayal, Eye, Men

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• The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

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  Fashion, Men, Fool

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• Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

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  Paris, Pretty Woman, Inexplicable

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• Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Abandoned, Refuse

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• The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Passion, Literature

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• Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

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  Answers, Pleasure, Greater

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• Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

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  Memories, Desire, Enjoyed

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• Necessity is often the spur to genius.

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  Inspirational, Spurs, Genius

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• Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

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  Past, Men, Sorrow

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• Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

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  Lovers, Break, Scoundrels

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• What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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  Mean, Feelings, Charm

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• Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

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  Men, Doe, Done

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