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Honore de Balzac

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

-Honore de Balzac

alone

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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anniversary

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

-Honore de Balzac

art

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

-Honore de Balzac

art

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

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art

What is art? Nature concentrated.

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art

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

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art

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

-Honore de Balzac

beauty

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

-Honore de Balzac

beauty

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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business

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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business

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

business

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

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death

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

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equality

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

-Honore de Balzac

equality

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

-Honore de Balzac

finance

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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finance

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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forgiveness

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

-Honore de Balzac

forgiveness

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

-Honore de Balzac

friendship

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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future

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

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god

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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good

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

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great

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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great

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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great

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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great

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

-Honore de Balzac

great

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

-Honore de Balzac

great

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

-Honore de Balzac

great

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

-Honore de Balzac

great

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

great

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

happiness

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

-Honore de Balzac

happiness

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

-Honore de Balzac

history

Honore de Balzac

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

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

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

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

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

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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

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.

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.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

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

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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

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