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• The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
  -- Honore' de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage 1829...
• Behind every great fortune there is a crime. -- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
• The more you judge, the less you love. -- Honore de Balzac
• Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. -- Honore de Balzac
• Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. -- Honore de Balzac
• When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crime
  when they do not love us, they give us credit fot nothing, not even out virtues....
• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. -- Honore de Balzac
• Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
  -- Honore de Balzac...
• A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second
  with a husband it runs the other way. -- Honore de Balzac...