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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.

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.

Honore de Balzac
Letting Go, Husband, Lying

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

Honore de Balzac
Lying, Worry, Anticipation

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

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

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

Honore de Balzac
Lying, Greatest Fear, Anticipation

Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

Honore de Balzac
Lying, Law, Names
"Seraphita". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1834.

It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

Honore de Balzac
Lying, Overcoming, Wickedness

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.

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

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.

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

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

Honore de Balzac
Mother, Lying, Hands

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

Honore de Balzac
Lying, Men, Gambling

The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

Honore de Balzac
Art, Lying, Secret

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