Category: 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.”
-Honore de Balzac

“The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.”
-Honore de Balzac

“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
-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.”
-Honore de Balzac

“Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.”
-Honore de Balzac

“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”
-Honore de Balzac

“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
-Honore de Balzac

“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”
-Honore de Balzac

“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”
-Honore de Balzac

“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
-Honore de Balzac