Honore De Balzac Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Cost Quotes

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

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A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

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The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.

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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

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A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

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A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

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By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

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In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

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A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

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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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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

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

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The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.

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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.

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Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

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