"What is motherhood save Nature in her most…" — Honore de Balzac
"What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?"
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332 Quotes by Honore de Balzac
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- There is something great and terrible about suicide.
- Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
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- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine…
- Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for…
- 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.
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- A mother who is really a mother is never free.
- The more one judges, the less one loves.
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