Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
HONORE DE BALZACVirtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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