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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Honore de Balzac

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

Honore de Balzac

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Honore de Balzac

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

Honore de Balzac

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Honore de Balzac

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Honore de Balzac

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

Honore de Balzac

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore de Balzac

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

Honore de Balzac

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Honore de Balzac

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

Honore de Balzac

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Honore de Balzac

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Honore de Balzac

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Honore de Balzac

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Honore de Balzac