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Honore de Balzac
French
Novelist
Born:
May 20
,
1799
Died:
Aug 18
,
1850
Great
Husband
Love
Man
Nothing
Woman
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac
Forgiveness
You
Heart
Mother
Will
Abyss
Find
Bottom
Always
Which
Deep
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
Happiness
Future
Memories
Mother
Past
Guise
Fond
Fond Memories
Beacon
Lighting
Like
Also
Mother's Day
Up
Reflected
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore de Balzac
Legal
Spider
Big
Web
Laws
Through
Pass
Caught
Get
Which
Little
Flies
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de Balzac
Soul
Marriage
Believe
Immortality
Should
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Honore de Balzac
Love
Woman
Ugly
Stupid
Nobody
She
Because
Intelligent
Handsome
Loves
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 always young in the heart.
Honore de Balzac
Love
True Love
Heart
Love Is
Pure
Seen
Young
White
True
Hairs
Like
Equal
Without
Always
Demonstrations
Itself
Infinite
Eternal
Violent
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de Balzac
Good
Morning
Marriage
Husband
First
Never
Go
Awake
Last
Night
Good Husband
Sleep
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Honore de Balzac
Man
Husband
Lover
Silent
He
Converse
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore de Balzac
Art
Eye
See
Could
Hand
Paint
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honore de Balzac
Art
Mom
Motherhood
Too
Detail
Finds
Silent
Minute
Self-Denial
Involves
Devotion
Which
Much
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Honore de Balzac
Love
Wisdom
Only
Also
Motto
Chivalry
Serve
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honore de Balzac
Parenting
Mother
Free
Never
Really
Who
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
Love
Heart
Will
Own
Nothing
Flower
Way
Insect
Finding
Finds
Instinct
Nor
Which
Turn
Aside
Dismay
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Honore de Balzac
Man
Woman
Anatomy
At Least One
Marry
Dating
Studied
He
Until
Least
Should
Dissected
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
Great
Religion
People
Will
Fall
Rich
Attack
After
Swept
Away
Royalty
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Honore de Balzac
Modesty
Body
Conscience
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Honore de Balzac
Love
Wisdom
Apprehension
Spirit
Rises
Through
Heavenly
Which
Things
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac
Pleasure
More
Diving
Bottom
Up
Than
Gravel
Bring
Pearls
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore de Balzac
Alone
Woman
Beauty
Console
Dear
Loss
Children
Loving
Her
A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
Honore de Balzac
Words
Sign
Sure
Sure Sign
Duplicity
Flow
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
Honore de Balzac
Youth
Intelligence
Passion
Fools
Insight
Give
Observed
Sort
Idiots
Brings
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore de Balzac
Life
You
Mother
Fears
Long
Dramas
See
Tender
Hour
Joys
Terrible
Succession
Now
Soft
Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
Honore de Balzac
Love
Together
Better
Hatred
Every
Increase
Must
Constantly
Hating
Between
Fresh
Always
Loving
Persons
Moment
Who
Reasons
Found
Two
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Honore de Balzac
Our
Pursue
Colors
Bleed
Like
Existence
Wanted
Which
Whole
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
Honore de Balzac
Man
Woman
Poor
Compared
Creature
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Honore de Balzac
Love
Great
Great Love
Affairs
End
Champagne
Start
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