You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.
Honore de BalzacIdeas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de BalzacThe fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Honore de Balzac