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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
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 (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
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 (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
The duration of a couple’s passion is in proportion to the woman’s original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force? (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Noble passions are like vices: The more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, mothers and gamblers are insatiable (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
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 (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
The errors of women spring almost always from her faith in the good or her confidence in the true (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
The winter’s frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust (Honore De Balzac Quotes)
We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing (Honore De Balzac Quotes)