French novelist and playwright
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other. – Honore de Balzac
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. – Honore de Balzac
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. – Honoré de Balzac
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation. – Honore de Balzac
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of ignorance. – Honore de Balzac
To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. – Honore de Balzac
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. – Honore de Balzac
Reading brings us unknown friends. – Honoré de Balzac
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. – Honore de Balzac
It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music. – 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. – Honore de Balzac
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole. – Honoré de Balzac
Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God. – Honore de Balzac
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling. – Honore de Balzac
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be. – Honoré de Balzac
All happiness depends on courage and work. – Honore de Balzac
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. – Honore de Balzac
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time. – Honore de Balzac
Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they’re strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power’s so enormous there’s a real risk it could shatter them. – Honore de Balzac
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history art and romance would be useless. – Honore de Balzac
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