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Honore de Balzac Quotes About Love

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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

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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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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 motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

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Honore de Balzac Quotes About Women

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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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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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

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More Quotes by Honore de Balzac

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

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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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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.

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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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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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

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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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

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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

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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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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

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