Honore De Balzac Quotes, Lovers Quotes, Break Quotes

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

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My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

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It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

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

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Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

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Sensuality is the death of the soul.

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One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

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Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

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

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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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One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

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Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

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At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

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Behind every fortune there is a crime.

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Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

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The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

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Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

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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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