No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
HONORE DE BALZACA mother who is really a mother is never free.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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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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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
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