Honoré de Balzac

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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea."	Knowledge, Love, Men
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."	Crime, Excellence
"Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire."	Adversity, Ambition, Desires
"He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men."	Art, Criticism, Excellence
"He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men."	Art, Criticism, Excellence
"I believe in the incomprehensibility of God."	Lies
"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from time to time."	Adversity, Difficulty, Love
"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity."	Age
"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."	Death, Men, Women
"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."	Age, Lies
"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."	Honesty, Monarchy, Power
"Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine."	Miscellaneous
"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin."	Miscellaneous
"The more one judges, the less one loves."	Love
"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."	Age, Art, Equality
"What is art? Nature concentrated."	Art, Nature
"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."	Crime, Forgiveness, Love

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Honesty	Knowledge	Lies
Love	Men	Miscellaneous
Monarchy	Nature	Peace
Power	Time	Truth
Violence	Virtue	Wants
Wisdom	Women