All Honore De Balzac Quotes
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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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.
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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
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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.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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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!
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
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