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Quotes from A Daughter of Eve — Honoré de Balzac

1799–1850 France

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Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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Suicide, moreover, was at that time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

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Girls brought up as you were, in a very strait-laced and puritan fashion, always pant for liberty and happiness, and the happiness they have never comes up to what they imagined. Those are the girls that make bad wives.

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Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

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Tyranny produces two results, exactly opposite in character, and which are symbolized in those two great types of the slave in classical times — Epictetus and Spartacus. The one is hatred with its evil train, the other meekness with its Christian graces.

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