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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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.

Honore de Balzac

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Honore de Balzac

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

Honore de Balzac

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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.

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.

Honore de Balzac

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

Honore de Balzac

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Honore de Balzac

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Honore de Balzac

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honore de Balzac

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

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.

Honore de Balzac

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Honore de Balzac