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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

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Life, Drama, Men

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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Marriage, Fighting, Monsters

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

Honore de Balzac
God, Thoughtful, Seekers
"Seraphita: Works of Balzac".

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Honore de Balzac
True Love, Love Is, What Is Love

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

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Love, Men, Play

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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Art, Effort, Counterfeit

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

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Husband, Wife, Yoke
Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.92, The Floating Press

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

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Journey, Poetry, Painful

Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

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Struggle, Fate, Men

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Honore de Balzac
Beauty, Falling In Love, Stupid

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Honore de Balzac
Mothers Day, Parenting, Parenthood
"Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

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Fever, Six, Eternity

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

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Husband, Betrayal, Want

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

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Novelty, Deceptive, Delightful

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

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Coffee, Espresso, People
"Daily Rituals" by Mason Currey, www.slate.com. April 19, 2013.

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

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Angel, Men, Compassion

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

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Solitude, Moral, Resources

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

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Mean, Men, Law

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

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Love, Yield, Natural

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

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Men, Instinct, Born

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

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Love Is, Cost, Devastation

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Honore de Balzac
Love, Valentines Day, Valentine's Day
Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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Race, Literature, Finance

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

Honore de Balzac
Events, Outcomes, Individual

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

Honore de Balzac
Heart, Climbing, Hatred

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