3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
