Honore De Balzac Quotes
A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. 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. A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. A mother who is really a mother is never free. A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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