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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
“Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.”
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.”
“The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.”
“There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.”
“The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.”
“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”
“Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.”
“The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.”
“When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.”
“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.”
“Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.”
“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”
“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.”
“In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.”
“Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!”
“Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.”
“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.”
“Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.”
“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”
“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”
“Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.”