Honore De Balzac Quotes, Religious Quotes, Twins Quotes

Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

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Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

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In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

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

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Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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Sensuality is the death of the soul.

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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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

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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

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

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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

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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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With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

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No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

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Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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