Balzac apparently believed (it was one of his father's articles of faith) that man is endowed with a limited quantity of vital energy, in essence sexual potency, which he could either prudently conserve or else exorbitantly expend.

Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot, pp. 43-44.

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