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For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

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Bread, Worship, God Love

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

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Admiration, Tedious

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

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Art, Perfection, Simplicity

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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Artist, Literature, Grocers

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

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Mom, Mother, Fashion
Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.183, The Floating Press

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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Soul, Literature, Virtue
Honore de Balzac (1925). “The Physiology of Marriage”, p.66, Library of Alexandria

Economized love is never real love.

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Love, Real, Heart

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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Husband, Lying, Player
Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.7, The Floating Press

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

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Women, Feelings, Stronger

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

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Gone, Today, Nobility

Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

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Eye, Starlight, Virgins

Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

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Women, Hypocrisy, Littles
Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.94, The Floating Press

Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

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Space, Soul, Wells

On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

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Friends, Dog, True Friend

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

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Simplicity, Storm, Captains

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

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Evil, Cures, Quacks
Honore de Balzac “A Distinguished Provincial at Paris”, Library of Alexandria

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

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Karma, Past, Secret
Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.101, 谷月社

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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Running, Men, Literature
Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.110, The Floating Press

Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

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Book, Hands, Doubt

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

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Couple, Husband, Wife

Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

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Opposites, Literature, Way
"A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

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Twelve, Widows, Handsome

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

Honore de Balzac
Player, Men, Heaven
"Socrate Chrétien" as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 911-917), 1922.

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

Honore de Balzac
Names, Religion, Sects

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

Honore de Balzac
Race, Land, Care

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