Honore de Balzac Quotes

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• There is something great and terrible about suicide.
• Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
• The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
• Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
• Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
• Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
• A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
• A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
• A mother who is really a mother is never free.
• The more one judges, the less one loves.
• It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
• No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
• A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
• There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
• 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…
• Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
• True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is…

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