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• A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

  Honore de Balzac

  Doe, Martyr, Great Writers

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• True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

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  Love Is, Dupes, Flattery

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons”, p.200, The Floating Press

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• Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

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  Jealousy, Stupid, Envy

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• Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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  Marriage, Fighting, Monsters

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• In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

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  Love, Growing, Firsts

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• At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

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  Love, Girl, Women

  "A Woman of Thirty" by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriag, (Ch. III), 1842.

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• With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

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  Grateful, Men, Secret

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• Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

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  Cutting, Men, Balls

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.102, Library of Alexandria

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• One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

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  Women, Desire, Female

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• For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Feet, Sick

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• The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

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  Believe, Men, Europe

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• Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

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  Flower, Heart, Intuition

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.88, 谷月社

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• One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

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  Life, Mind, Habit

  Honore de Balzac (1950). “Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet”

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• How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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  Quality, Vices, Failing

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• Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

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  Crush, Shy, Persons

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• Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

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  Men, Action, Providence

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• Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

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  Women, Men

  The Physiology of Marriage

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• Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

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  Moving, Men, Wish

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• Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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  Passion, Men, Ideas

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• Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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  Children, Literature, Sovereign

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.172, The Floating Press

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• A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

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  Marriage, Women, Cutting

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• Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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  Time, Money, Children

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Firm of Nucingen”, p.19, The Floating Press

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• One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

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  Jealousy, Men, Want Something

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• Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

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  Dupes, Emotion, Victim

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