Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?
Honore de BalzacSqueeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.
Honore de BalzacThe weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.
Honore de BalzacHow sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
Honore de Balzac