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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

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Liberty, Triumph, Able

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

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Men, May, Waste

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

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Lying, Worry, Anticipation

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

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Love, True Love, Men

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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Love, Wine, Tea

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

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Men, Judging, Feelings
Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.94, The Floating Press

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

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Kings, Home, Feelings

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

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Mother, Doe, World

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

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Fire, Flames, Genius

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

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Men, Giving, Wife
Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.487, The Floating Press

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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Hate, Hatred, Soul

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

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Happiness, Marriage, Couple

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

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Suffering, Devotion, Feels

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

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Mind, Great Minds, Virtue

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

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Love, People, Suspicion

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

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Heart, Wealth, Treasury
Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.75, Library of Alexandria

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

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Avarice Greed, Poverty, Ends

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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Funny, Marriage, Witty
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. The Physiology of Marriage Meditation V, Aphorism 28

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

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Energy, Illusion, Periods

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

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Lying, Judging, Literature
"'Le Père Goriot' ('Father Goriot')". Book by Honoré de Balzac. Part II, 1835.

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

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Heart, Winning, Opportunity

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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Funny Love, First Love, Love Is

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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Fear, Hands, Together

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

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Inspirational, Men, Law
"New Outlook, Volume 58". Book edited by Alfred Emanuel Smith, Outlook Publishing Company, Inc. (p. 272), 1898.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Honore de Balzac
Art, Passion, Romance

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