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Honore de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (/ˈbɔːlzæk, ˈbæl-/; French: [ɔ.nɔ.ʁe d(ə) bal.zak], born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.

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To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

Drunk, Height, Impossibility, Salesman

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

Equality, Humans, Law, May, Power

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

Aversion, Back, Ends, Men, Round, Start

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Caprice, Courtesan, Man, Men, Truer, Unexpected

The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.

Begins, Husband, Love, Ode, Odes, Sonnet

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

Cat, English, Herring, Oil, Wine

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

Dupe, Dupes, Men, Swindler, Vanity

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

Envy, Perpetuity, Vice, Vices, Yield, Yields

Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.

Affair, Affairs, Bettors, Moving, Secret, Upward

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

Carelessness, Dressing, Dressings, Moral, Suicide

Resignation is a daily suicide.

Suicide, Resignation, Daily

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Despotic, Law, Literature, Relaxed, Versa, Vices

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

Dark, Light, People, Sides

Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

Courtier, Loyalty, Time, Victory, Win, Winning

The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

Outward, Real, Splendor, Splendors, Things

Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking. . questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

Extraordinary, Journey, Men, Philosophical, Step, Systems

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

Bulwarks, See, Starts, Storm, Talking, Women

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Ideas, Men, Nature, Passion, Passions

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

Hour, Hours, Life, One Hour, Whole, Whole Life

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

Conceal, Men, Pride, Struggle, Struggles, Urges

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