3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac 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.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac 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.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac 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.
