Honore De Balzac Quotes, Mother Quotes

Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

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No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

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Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

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It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

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