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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

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Eye, Tongue, Mockery

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

Honore de Balzac
Literature, Virtuous Woman, Virtuous
"The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou".

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

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Women, Wife, World

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

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Girl, Education, Children
Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.10, 谷月社

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

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Society, Pity, Victim

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

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Voice, Echoes, Faithful

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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Fall, People, Rich

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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Family, Happiness, Mothers Day
Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.185, The Floating Press

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

Honore de Balzac
Money, Feelings, Age

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

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Flower, Heart, Intuition
Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.88, 谷月社

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

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Love, Tyranny

Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

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Heart, Doe, Gloves

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

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Happiness, Revenge, World

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

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Gratitude, Heart, Men

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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Men, Aversion, Ends

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

Honore de Balzac
Wedding, Flower, Wife
"Honorine". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1845.

A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

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Girl, Women, Thinking
Honore de Balzac (1897). “A Woman of Thirty”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

Honore de Balzac
Badass, Bad Ass, Events

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

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Girl, School, May

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

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Husband, Hate, Found Happiness

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

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Beauty, World, Figures

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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Judging, Stifling, Conscience
Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.149, The Floating Press

It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

Honore de Balzac
Wise, Strong, People

But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

Honore de Balzac
Passion, Disorder

The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

Honore de Balzac
Real, Splendor
Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.66, 谷月社

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