All Honore De Balzac Quotes
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
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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.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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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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