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Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Honore de Balzac
Marriage, Party, Fighting

Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.

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Couple, Fighting, Blessing
Honore de Balzac (1925). “The Physiology of Marriage”, p.29, Library of Alexandria

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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Art, Poetry, Vision
Honore De Balzac (2011). “Louis Lambert”, p.36, The Floating Press

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

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Women, Passion, Europe

A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

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Children, Women, Thinking

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

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Women, Suffering, Weakness

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

Honore de Balzac
Hatred, Giants, Journalism

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

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Exhausted, Abstract, Remains

Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

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Pride, Men, Causes

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

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Men, Despair, Sauntering

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

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Occupation, Twins, Born

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

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Gowns, Never Quit, Priests

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

Honore de Balzac
Men, Order, Neighbor

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

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Happiness, Heart, Men

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

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Men, Despair, Criminals

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

Honore de Balzac
Dark, Light, People

For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

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Men, Cities, World

Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

Honore de Balzac
Mother, Pardon

Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

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Monsters, Habit, Should

A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

Honore de Balzac
Doubt, Suffering, Doe
1831 La Recherche de l'absolu.

Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.

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Son, Men, Mistress
1829 Physiologie du mariage.

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

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Mother, Loss, Hands

La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

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Thrones, Married, Slave

The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

Honore de Balzac
Spirit, Rebellious, Rebellion
"'Catherine de Medici expliquée' ('About Catherine of Medici')". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1843.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Honore de Balzac
Funny, Money, Tired
Honore de Balzac (2014). “Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons”, p.772, The Floating Press

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