The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Death unites as well as separates.. view

By: Honore de Balzac

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Modesty is the conscience of the body... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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Finance, like time, devours its own children... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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

By: Honore de Balzac

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

By: Honore de Balzac

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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

By: Honore de Balzac

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The man as he converses is the lover.. view

By: Honore de Balzac

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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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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... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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

By: Honore de Balzac

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