Honore de Balzac

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love…

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity…

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane…

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business…

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they…

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in…

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society…

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy…

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not…

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought…

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get…

A mother who is really a mother is never free…

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal…

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the…

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste…