Author: Honore de Balzac

Quotes

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.

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.

- Honore de Balzac

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

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

- Honore de Balzac

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

- Honore de Balzac

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

- Honore de Balzac

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

- 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

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

- 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

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