Talk:Honoré de Balzac

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• Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

• [Envy is that] ignoble accumulation of disappointed hopes, frustrated talents, failures and wounded pretensions. Ficaia (talk) 17:21, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Mistranslation

I think paternelle has been mistranslated.The article has "parental" but I think the correct word is "paternal". But it has been a very long time since I have had any French...

--trleith

Old maids and watchdogs

Did Balzac actually say this or some variant thereof?

When there is an old maid in the house, a watch dog is unnecessary.

I noticed it as a footer "fortune" on Slashdot. --AnOddName 15:24, 22 July 2010 (UTC)