Honore De Balzac Quotes, Liberty Quotes, Trouble Quotes

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

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But does not happiness come from the soul within?

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A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

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The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

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

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Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?

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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

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