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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honoré de Balzac
Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.
Honoré de Balzac
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honoré de Balzac
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honoré de Balzac
The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.
Honoré de Balzac
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honoré de Balzac
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.
Honoré de Balzac
It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to show a ready wit all day long than to produce an occasional bon mot.
Honoré de Balzac
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honoré de Balzac
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honoré de Balzac
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
Honoré de Balzac
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Honoré de Balzac
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Honoré de Balzac
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honoré de Balzac
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
Honoré de Balzac
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honoré de Balzac
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
Honoré de Balzac
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Honoré de Balzac
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Honoré de Balzac
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Honoré de Balzac
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Honoré de Balzac
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Honoré de Balzac
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