Honore De Balzac Quotes, Women Quotes, Feelings Quotes

One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.

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Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

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Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

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Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

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If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

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A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

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La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

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A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

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White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

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Love is the poetry of the senses.

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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

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