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

896

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.


Honore de Balzac

896

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.


Honore de Balzac

896

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.


Honore de Balzac

896

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.


Honore de Balzac

896

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.


Honore de Balzac

896

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.


Honore de Balzac

896

A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.


Honore de Balzac

896

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?


Honore de Balzac

896

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.


Honore de Balzac

896

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.


Honore de Balzac

896

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

896

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.


Honore de Balzac

896

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?


Honore de Balzac

896

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.


Honore de Balzac

896

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.


Honore de Balzac

896

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!


Honore de Balzac

896

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.


Honore de Balzac

896

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.


Honore de Balzac

896

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.


Honore de Balzac

896

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