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"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."
Honore de Balzac"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."
Honore de Balzac"Finance, like time, devours its own children."
Honore de Balzac"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
Honore de Balzac"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
Honore de Balzac"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"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."
Honore de Balzac"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
Honore de Balzac"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power."
Honore de Balzac"Love is the poetry of the senses."
Honore de Balzac"Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love."
Honore de Balzac"The more one judges, the less one loves."
Honore de Balzac"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."
Honore de Balzac"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
Honore de Balzac"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."
Honore de Balzac"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."
Honore de Balzac"A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning."
Honore de Balzac"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity."
Honore de Balzac"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin."
Honore de Balzac"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."
Honore de Balzac"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."
Honore de Balzac"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"A mother who is really a mother is never free."
Honore de Balzac"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."
Honore de Balzac"Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established."
Honore de Balzac"The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband."
Honore de Balzac"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."
Honore de Balzac"A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over."
Honore de Balzac"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."
Honore de Balzac"The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste."
Honore de Balzac"Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart."
Honore de Balzac"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
Honore de Balzac"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God."
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