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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
By Honore de Balzac
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
By Honore De Balzac
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
By Honore De Balzac
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.
By Honore De Balzac
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
By Honore De Balzac
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
By Honore De Balzac
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
By Honore De Balzac
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.
By Honore De Balzac
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
By Honore De Balzac
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.
By Honore De Balzac
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
By Honore De Balzac
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.
By Honore De Balzac
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
By Honore De Balzac
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
By Honore De Balzac
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
By Honore De Balzac