Honore de Balzac

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile…

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy…

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power…

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion…

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to…

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great…

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime…

What is art? Nature concentrated…

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after…

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they…

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual…

It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the…

Love is the poetry of the senses…

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary…

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without…