Honore de Balzac
Quotations
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“A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” -Honore de Balzac
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“There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.” -Honore de Balzac
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“A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?” -Honore de Balzac
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“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.” -Honore de Balzac
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“There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!” -Honore de Balzac
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“Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.” -Honore de Balzac
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“When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.” -Honore de Balzac
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“But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.” -Honore de Balzac
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“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Love is the poetry of the senses.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!” -Honore de Balzac
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“A mother who is really a mother is never free.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.” -Honore de Balzac
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“It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.” -Honore de Balzac
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“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.” -Honore de Balzac
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“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.” -Honore de Balzac
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“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.” -Honore de Balzac
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“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.” -Honore de Balzac
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“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.” -Honore de Balzac
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“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.” -Honore de Balzac
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“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.” -Honore de Balzac
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“When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.” -Honore de Balzac
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“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.” -Honore de Balzac
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“A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.” -Honore de Balzac
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“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Finance, like time, devours its own children.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.” -Honore de Balzac
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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.” -Honore de Balzac
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“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.” -Honore de Balzac
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“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.” -Honore de Balzac
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“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.” -Honore de Balzac
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. – Honore de Balzac
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