All Honore De Balzac Quotes
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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Marriage
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
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Equality
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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