The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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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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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
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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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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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