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• Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

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• Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.

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• Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

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• Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

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• Reading brings us unknown friends.

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• Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

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• Debts are becoming for 25-year-olds; after this, no one forgives them.

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• Greed begins where poverty ends.

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• Man is neither good nor evil; he is born with instincts and abilities.

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• Passion is all of humanity. Without it, religion, history, the novel and art would be useless.

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• Deeds are nothing. They do not exist.Only our ideas survive.

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• A mother’s heart is an abyss at the bottom of which there is always forgiveness.

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• Love has its own instinct. It knows how to find the road to the heart just as the weakest insect moves toward its flower by an irresistible will which fears nothing.

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• Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

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• For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her the heavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

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• Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

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• Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it weakens our weaknesses still further.

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• Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

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• In times of crisis, the heart either breaks or boldens.

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• In all things, we should only be judged by our peers.

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Honoré de Balzac (137)

Birth:	20th May, 1799
Death:	18th August, 1850
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright

About

Honoré de Balzac was born in Tours, France. He was a French novelist and playwright. He wrote several novels include: Les Chouans, La Peau de chagrin, Adieu, La Vendetta, Colonel Chabert, Louis Lambert, Louis Lambert, Ferragus, Séraphîta, La Duchesse de Langeais, The Quest of the Absolute, Père Goriot, The Girl With the Golden Eyes, Le Lys Dans LA Vallee, Facino Cane, César Birotteau, La Rabouilleuse, Illusions perdues, Cousin Bette, Ursule Mirouët, Albert Savarus, Letters of Two Brides, Le Cousin Pons, Modeste Mignon, Honorine, and Le Cousin Pons. He wrote play, including Mercadet ou le faiseur.

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