Honoré de Balzac - Man Quotes

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Man is no angel. He is sometimes more of a hypocrite and sometimes less, and then fools say that he has or has not principles.

Honoré de Balzac

A man cannot marry before he has studied anatomy and has dissected at the least one woman.

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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman.

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If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment — giving to that word its exact significance. Man does not create forces; he employs the only force that exists and which includes all others, namely Motion, the breath incomprehensible of the sovereign Maker of the universe.

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A man who can love deeply is never utterly contemptible.

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The laws of love unite man and woman so strongly that no human laws can separate them.

Honoré de Balzac