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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
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
Love Women Men Nothing Crimes Our Virtues Everything Give Forgive Us Even Credit
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. Honore de Balzac
Happiness Happy Say Alike Bad Exaggerate Misfortune Never Off
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
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. Honore de Balzac
Great Heart Equality Despotism Give Small Great Souls Sinews Exercise Souls Require Natures Play Thirst
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
Time Day Every Day Simple Husband Lover Difficult Every Say Easier Pretty Pretty Things More Simple Reason Witty Than From Time To Time Reason Things
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
Finance, like time, devours its own children. Honore de Balzac
Finance Time Own Like Children
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. Honore de Balzac
Art Religion History Humanity Passion Would Would-Be Without Novels
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