About Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac ( BAL-zak, more commonly US: BAWL-; French: [ɔnɔʁe d(ə) balzak]; 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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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.