QUOTES by Honore de Balzac
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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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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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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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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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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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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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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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
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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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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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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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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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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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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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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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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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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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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
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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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