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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
By Honore De Balzac
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
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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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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
By Honore De Balzac
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
By Honore De Balzac
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.
By Honore De Balzac
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
By Honore De Balzac
No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
By Honore De Balzac
Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
By Honore De Balzac
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
By Honore De Balzac
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.
By Honore De Balzac
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
By Honore De Balzac
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
By Honore de Balzac
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
By Honore De Balzac
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.
By Honore De Balzac
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
By Honore De Balzac
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
By Honore De Balzac