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All Quotes by author - Honore de Balzac

" A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. "

" A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. "

" A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. "

" A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. "

" All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. "

" A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. "

" A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. "

" A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. "

" 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. "

" A mother who is really a mother is never free. "

" An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. "

" At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. "

" A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. "

" A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. "

" Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. "

" 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. "

" Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. "

" But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. "

" Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. "

" Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. "

" Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. "

" Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. "

" Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. "

" Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. "

" Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. "

" Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. "

" Finance, like time, devours its own children. "

" First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. "

" For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. "

" Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. "

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