Tag: Honore de Balzac
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
Honore de Balzac
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac
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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
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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
Honore de Balzac
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It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Honore de Balzac
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Honore de Balzac
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
Honore de Balzac
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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady’s window.
Honore de Balzac
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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
Honore de Balzac
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Honore de Balzac