Honoré de Balzac

Honoré 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."
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"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."
Honoré de Balzac
"Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love."
Honoré de Balzac
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."
Honoré de Balzac
"Paris that eternal monstrous marvel … the city of a hundred-thousand novels … a living creature, the great courtesan whose face and heart and mind-boggling morals they know: “They” are the lovers of Paris."
Honoré de Balzac
"Our worst misfortunes never happen and most miseries lie in anticipation."
Honoré de Balzac
"Believe everything you hear said of the world nothing is too impossibly bad."
Honoré de Balzac
"All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness but with energy and above all with illusions I pulled through them all."
Honoré 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."
Honoré de Balzac
"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."
Honoré de Balzac
"Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions envy is only moved to malice."
Honoré de Balzac
"Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation."
Honoré de Balzac
"Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless."
Honoré de Balzac
"A mother who is really a mother is never free."
Honoré de Balzac
"If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!"
Honoré de Balzac
"Envy is the most stupid of vices for there is no single advantage to be gained from it."
Honoré de Balzac
"Modesty is the conscience of the body."
Honoré de Balzac
"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin."
Honoré de Balzac
"A woman must be a genius to create a good husband."
Honoré de Balzac
"To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect."
Honoré de Balzac
"A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning."
Honoré de Balzac
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