Honore De Balzac Quotes, Twelve Quotes, Widows Quotes

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

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Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

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No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

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Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

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Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

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Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

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Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

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Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

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The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

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The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

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Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

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