Honore De Balzac Quotes, Jealousy Quotes, Passion Quotes

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

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Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

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In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

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Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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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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The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

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It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

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Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

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Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

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One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

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