French - Novelist | May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
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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.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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