Author: Honore de Balzac

Quotes

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

- Honore de Balzac

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

- Honore de Balzac

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

- Honore de Balzac

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

- 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.

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

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

- Honore de Balzac

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

- Honore de Balzac

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

- Honore de Balzac

The more one judges, the less one loves.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

- Honore de Balzac

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