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- Honoré de Balzac: French writer
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.
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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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