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

Quote by Honore De Balzac

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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy...

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy...

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

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

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

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

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that...

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that...

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two...

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two...

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...

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no...

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no...

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it...

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it...

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Power is the capacity to distort information

Power is the capacity to distort information

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that...

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that...

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the...

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the...

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

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

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill...

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill...

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...