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What is art? Nature concentrated.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

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Art, Nature, Literature

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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Country, Paris, Trying

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

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Girl, Mother, Men

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

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Atheism, Thanks, Century

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

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Powerful, Sin, Repentance
Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.59, 谷月社

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

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Love, Coquetry, Virtuous

Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

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Heart, Angel, Looks
Honore De Balzac (1958). “Cousin Bette”

No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

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Husband, Wife, Lovers

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

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Clouds, Veils, Shrouds

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

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Men, Action, Providence

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

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

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Faults, Repentance, Ends

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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Wish, Spirit, Force

Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

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Blow, Wind, Mobility

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

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Jesus, Police, Enemy

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

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Two, Kind, Poet

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

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”

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

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Failure, Remembrance, Age

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.

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

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Women, Angel, Suffering

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

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Stupid, People, Heaven

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

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Success, Wish

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

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Love Is, Height, Way

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

Honore de Balzac
Beautiful, Grief, Ambition

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