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Which Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
- The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
- The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to…
- The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
- Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
- Love is a game in which one always cheats.
- First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
- 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…
- Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
- A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
- Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
- Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
- Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
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