Honore De Balzac Quotes, Motherhood Quotes, Mood Quotes

What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

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True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

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A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

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They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

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Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

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Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

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Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

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Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

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Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

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[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

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Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

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Glory is the sunshine of the dead

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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

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