Honore de Balzac's Quotes

Honore de Balzac's Quotes 63

The most virtuous women have something within them something that is never...

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises...

A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower...

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is...

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the...

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze...

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Suicide moreover was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key...

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Women are tenacious and all of them should be tenacious of respect without...

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often but by striking true.

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Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is...

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being...

To those who have exhausted politics nothing remains but abstract thought.

Political liberty the peace of a nation and science itself are gifts for...

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is...

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in...

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they...

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is...

Men die in despair while spirits die in ecstasy.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything:...

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one...

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