Honore De Balzac

(523 votes)   To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Honore De Balzac
1799-1850, French Novelist

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(463 votes)   Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Honore De Balzac
1799-1850, French Novelist

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(400 votes)   A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

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(331 votes)   Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

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(277 votes)   You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

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(184 votes)   One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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(154 votes)   A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.

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(152 votes)   No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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(148 votes)   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.

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(123 votes)   Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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(122 votes)   It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

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(120 votes)   An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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(120 votes)   We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

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(119 votes)   Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

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(114 votes)   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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