To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved. — Honore de Balzac Inspirational Copy Share Image
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding. — Honore de Balzac Ends Copy Share Image
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. — Honore de Balzac Education Copy Share Image
If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of… — Honore de Balzac Enchantment Copy Share Image
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it… — Honore de Balzac Credit Copy Share Image
Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at… — Honore de Balzac Girl Copy Share Image
Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves. — Honore de Balzac Charity Copy Share Image
“N'y a-t-il pas des pensées, des actions qui, en amour, équivalent, pour certaines âmes, à de saintes fiancailles!” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of… — Honore de Balzac Damage Copy Share Image
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and… — Honore de Balzac Calculations Copy Share Image
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan. — Honore de Balzac Defeat Copy Share Image
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of… — Honore de Balzac Iron Copy Share Image
Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all… — Honore de Balzac Doe Copy Share Image
People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply. — Honore de Balzac Climbs Copy Share Image
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. — Honore de Balzac Bottom 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 Coquetry Copy Share Image
Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts. — Honore de Balzac Angel Copy Share Image
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked. — Honore de Balzac Flew Copy Share Image
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the… — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to… — Honore de Balzac Feels Copy Share Image
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and… — Honore de Balzac Love Copy Share Image
