Honore de Balzac Quotes - Page 9

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• Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

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  Women, Men

  The Physiology of Marriage

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• In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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  France, Injury, Remedy

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• The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

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  Literature, Virtuous Woman, Virtuous

  "The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou".

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• Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

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  Answers, Pleasure, Greater

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• Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

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  Happiness, Hypocrisy, Social

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• Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

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  Eye, Tongue, Mockery

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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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  Women, Wife, World

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• No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

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  Society, Pity, Victim

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• Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

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  Girl, Education, Children

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.10, 谷月社

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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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  Family, Happiness, Mothers Day

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.185, The Floating Press

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• When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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  Fall, People, Rich

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• A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

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  Voice, Echoes, Faithful

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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.

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  Flower, Heart, Intuition

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.88, 谷月社

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• Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

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  Money, Feelings, Age

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• The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

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  Love, Tyranny

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• Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

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  Gratitude, Heart, Men

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• Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

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  Heart, Doe, Gloves

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• The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

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  Happiness, Revenge, World

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• A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

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  Wedding, Flower, Wife

  "Honorine". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1845.

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• Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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  Men, Aversion, Ends

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• The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

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  Badass, Bad Ass, Events

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• A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

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  Girl, School, May

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• In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

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  Beauty, World, Figures

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• A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

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  Girl, Women, Thinking

  Honore de Balzac (1897). “A Woman of Thirty”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

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• But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

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  Passion, Disorder

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