“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
Author
Honore de Balzac
63 quotes
“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”
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“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”
“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”
“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
“What is art? Nature concentrated.”
“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.”
“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”
“A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.”
“The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.”
“Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.”
“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”
“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.”
“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.”
“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”
“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.”
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
“Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.”
“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.”
“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”