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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

Honore de Balzac
Inspirational, Wisdom, Peace

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

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Giving, Deals

The more you judge, the less you love.

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Judging, Judgement, Criticism

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

Honore de Balzac
Women, Wife, Rooms
Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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Goes On, Forget
Honore de Balzac (2010). “Cousin Bette”, p.706, The Floating Press

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

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Letting Go, Husband, Lying

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

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Generosity, Poor, Generous

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

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Character, Thermometers, Temperament

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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Liberty, Giants, Libertarian

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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Strong, Creative, Secret
Honoré de Balzac (2007). “Cesar Birotteau and Gaudissart the Great”, p.317, Wildside Press LLC

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Honore de Balzac
Naked, Skirts, Nudity

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

Honore de Balzac
Christian, Men, Events

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac
Love, Men, Sea

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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Inspirational, Willpower, Talent

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

Honore de Balzac
Hate, Two, Hatred

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Honore de Balzac
Family, Mothers Day, Mom
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

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Men, Sheep, Iron
Honore de Balzac (2010). “Cousin Bette”, p.293, The Floating Press

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

Honore de Balzac
Inferiority, Helping, Modesty
Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.202, The Floating Press

It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.

Honore de Balzac
Beautiful, Horse, Sight

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

Honore de Balzac
Coffee, Army, Ideas

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Honore de Balzac
Money, Riches, Wealth
"At the Sign of the Cat and Racket". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1830.

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.

Honore de Balzac
Love, Life, Marriage

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

Honore de Balzac
Poverty, Cease, Avarice
Honore de Balzac (2009). “Lost Illusions”, p.16, The Floating Press

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

Honore de Balzac
Men, Illegal, Profit

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Honore de Balzac
Being Yourself, Work, Love Yourself

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