Author: Honore de Balzac

Quotes

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

- 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

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

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

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

The more one judges, the less one loves.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

- Honore de Balzac

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

- Honore de Balzac

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

- 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

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