French - Novelist | May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac
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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
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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.
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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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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.
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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