Honore de Balzac quotes
The more you judge, the less you love.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.