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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
“Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.”
“Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.”
“Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.”
“In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.”
“God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.”
“In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.”
“Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.”
“Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.”
“Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.”
“Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.”
“Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.”
“No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.”
“The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.”
“To speak of love is to make love.”
Source: The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou
“True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!”
“You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.”
“No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.”
“For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.”
“Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.”
“Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.”