“When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.”
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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
“A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.”
“The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.”
“Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.”
Source: The Atheist's Mass
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
Source: A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life
Source: Old Goriot: Classic French Literature
Source: Cousin Bette
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.”
“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”
Source: A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac
Source: Letters of Two Brides
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
Source: The Elixir of Life
Source: The Lily of the Valley
Source: Father Goriot
“Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.”