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

Quote by Honore De Balzac

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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect...

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect...

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal...

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal...

Power is the capacity to distort information

Power is the capacity to distort information

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding...

They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding...

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his...

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his...

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great...

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great...

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating...

A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating...

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment...

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment...

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their...

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their...

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they...

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they...

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.