Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorOne can love without being happy; one can be happy without loving; but to love and be happy is something marvelous.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorOne is not a friend of a woman when one can be her lover.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorWhat makes friendships indissoluble and doubles their charm is a feeling that love lacks, certainty.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorIngratitude may stem from the inability to repay.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorBeing jealous is the height of selfishness, it is self-love in deficiency, it is the irritation of false vanity.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorElegance is the science of not doing anything the same as others, while appearing to do everything in the same way as they do.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorWe must leave vanity to those who have nothing else to exhibit.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorThe brute covers himself, the rich adorns himself, the foolish disguises himself, the elegant dresses himself.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorEquality may be a right, but there is no human power that can ever turn it into a fact.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorLove is the poetry of the senses.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorThose who do not have children miss out on many pleasures, but also avoid many pains.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorIn great crises, the heart breaks or toughens.