Tag: Honore de Balzac
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A husband who submits to his wife’s yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman’s influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Honore de Balzac
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
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.
Honore de Balzac
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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!
Honore de Balzac
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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.
Honore de Balzac
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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.
Honore de Balzac
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Honore de Balzac
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore de Balzac
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
Honore de Balzac
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de Balzac