“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.”
Honore De Balzac
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“The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”
Honore De Balzac
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“Love is the poetry of the senses.”
Honore De Balzac
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“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
Honore De Balzac
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“Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn’t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.”
Honore De Balzac
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“Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.”
Honore De Balzac
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“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
Honore De Balzac
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“In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.”
Honore De Balzac
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“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
Honore De Balzac
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“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”
Honore De Balzac
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“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”
Honore De Balzac
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“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”
Honore De Balzac
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“Modesty is the conscience of the body.”
Honore De Balzac
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“A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.”
Honore De Balzac
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“Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.”
Honore De Balzac
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“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.”
Honore De Balzac
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“To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.”
Honore De Balzac
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“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.”
Honore De Balzac
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“You may imitate, but never counterfeit.”
Honore De Balzac
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“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”
Honore De Balzac
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