A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Quotes by Honore de Balzac
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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.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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.
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
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.
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.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
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