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HONORE DE BALZAC Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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HONORE DE BALZAC You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
HONORE DE BALZAC Modesty is the conscience of the body.
HONORE DE BALZAC A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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HONORE DE BALZAC To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
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HONORE DE BALZAC We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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[Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gon...
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HONORE DE BALZAC Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Cruelty and fear shake hands together
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HONORE DE BALZAC The more one judges, the less one loves.
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HONORE DE BALZAC One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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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 Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZAC There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
HONORE DE BALZAC Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life ...
HONORE DE BALZAC It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
HONORE DE BALZAC Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
HONORE DE BALZAC Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love...
HONORE DE BALZAC Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
HONORE DE BALZAC True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demons...
HONORE DE BALZAC A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZAC Finance, like time, devours its own children.
HONORE DE BALZAC First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
HONORE DE BALZAC Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
HONORE DE BALZAC The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
HONORE DE BALZAC Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its...
HONORE DE BALZAC Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
HONORE DE BALZAC A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in ...
HONORE DE BALZAC The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they ...
HONORE DE BALZAC No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
HONORE DE BALZAC Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportio...
HONORE DE BALZAC A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. N...
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