For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.
Honore de BalzacWhen passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.
Honore de BalzacNobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Honore de Balzac