Honoré de Balzac Quotes

The glutton is the least estimable subject of gastronomy, because it ignores its elemental principle: The sublime art of chewing!

People always end up condemning those they accuse.

Educated, virtue calculates as well as vice.

The love creates in the woman a new woman; the one from the eve no longer exists the following day.

How many infamies is success made of?

Love abhors everything that is not love.

Marriage must tirelessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit.

Has anyone ever truly loved? There are people who have died, and I feel they still love.

Power does not consist in hitting often or frequently, but in hitting at the right time.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

The hatred, like love, feeds on the smallest things, anything goes.

A mother's heart is an abyss, at the bottom of which there is always forgiveness.