The most virtuous women have something within them something that is never chaste.
The most virtuous women have something within them something that is never chaste.
Author: Honore de Balzac
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Suicide moreover was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
Suicide moreover was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
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.
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.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often but by striking true.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often but by striking true.
Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted like everything that is positive while the other is infinite.
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted like everything that is positive while the other is infinite.