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Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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When abuses are great and entrenched, the push to uproot them must be strong.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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It's easier to come across as a good lover than as a husband; because it's easier to be timely and witty from time to time than every day.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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One can love without being happy; one can be happy without loving; but to love and be happy is something marvelous.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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One is not a friend of a woman when one can be her lover.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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What makes friendships indissoluble and doubles their charm is a feeling that love lacks, certainty.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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Ingratitude may stem from the inability to repay.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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Being jealous is the height of selfishness, it is self-love in deficiency, it is the irritation of false vanity.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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Elegance is the science of not doing anything the same as others, while appearing to do everything in the same way as they do.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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We must leave vanity to those who have nothing else to exhibit.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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The brute covers himself, the rich adorns himself, the foolish disguises himself, the elegant dresses himself.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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Equality may be a right, but there is no human power that can ever turn it into a fact.