Honore De Balzac Quotes, Women Quotes, Desire Quotes

One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

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How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

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Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

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Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

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He who best knows the world will love it least.

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Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

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What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

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Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

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Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

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Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

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Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

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A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

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Love is a game in which one always cheats.

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Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

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Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

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Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

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