Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.
Honore de BalzacPoles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.
Honore de BalzacProstitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.
Honore de Balzac