Honore De Balzac Quotes, Mother Quotes, Children Quotes

Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

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Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

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To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

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Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

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Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.

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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

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The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

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Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

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Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

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We love because we love.

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Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

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When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

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Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

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