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• When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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• A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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• Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady’s window.

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• The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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• If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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• Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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• Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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• It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father’s craft.

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• When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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

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• No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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

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• Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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• Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

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

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• The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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• The more one judges, the less one loves.

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

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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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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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