Honore De Balzac Quotes, Love Quotes

We love because we love.

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Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.

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A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

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The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

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Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

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It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

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In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

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Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

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Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

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Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

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Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

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Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

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Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

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A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

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