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To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

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Money, Gold, Add

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

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Cute Love, Cheating, Love Is

Love which economizes is never true love.

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Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

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Law, May, Humans

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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Children, Loss, Her Beauty
"Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

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Solitude, Answers, Pleasure

But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

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Falling In Love, Heart, Feelings

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

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Kindness, Heart, Character

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

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Fate, Men, Joy

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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Spring, Years, Enemy

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

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Art, Lying, Real
Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.90, 谷月社

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

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Men, Sheep, Sea

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

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Math, Numbers, Intellectual

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

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Pain, Shadow, World
Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.39, The Floating Press

Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

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Taken, Poison, Glory

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

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Real, Adversity, Heart

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

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Voice, Soul, Desert

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

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Men, Poet

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

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Intimate, Evasion, Unworthy

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

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Impossible, Virtue

There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

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Light, Originals

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

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Idols, Noble, Want

The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

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Passion, Greed, Gold

A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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Clothes, Vices, Mishaps

Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

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Gratitude, Moving, Winter

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