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 BALZACA 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 BALZACThe boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
HONORE DE BALZACAs a rule, only the poor are generous.
HONORE DE BALZACWhere poverty ceases, avarice begins.
HONORE DE BALZACThe duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
HONORE DE BALZACThere is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
HONORE DE BALZACTrue 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 BALZACOne should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
HONORE DE BALZACWe love because we love.
HONORE DE BALZACFirst love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
HONORE DE BALZACA great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
HONORE DE BALZACThe good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZACThe heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
HONORE DE BALZACLove is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
HONORE DE BALZACLiberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
HONORE DE BALZACOld men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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