Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything:… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
