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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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Modesty is a relative virtue, depending on whether one is twenty, thirty, or forty-five years old.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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People always end up condemning those they accuse.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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Educated, virtue calculates as well as vice.

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The love creates in the woman a new woman; the one from the eve no longer exists the following day.

Honoré de Balzac

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How many infamies is success made of?

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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Love abhors everything that is not love.

Honoré de Balzac

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Marriage must tirelessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit.

Honoré de Balzac

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Has anyone ever truly loved? There are people who have died, and I feel they still love.

Honoré de Balzac

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Power does not consist in hitting often or frequently, but in hitting at the right time.

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The more one judges, the less one loves.

Honoré de Balzac

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The hatred, like love, feeds on the smallest things, anything goes.

Honoré de Balzac

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A mother's heart is an abyss, at the bottom of which there is always forgiveness.