Quotes by : Honoré de Balzac

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier?....

Parent may hinder their children's marriage but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their....

Love is the poetry of the senses!

The more he saw, the more he doubted. He watched men narrowly, and saw how, beneath the surface, courage....

Reading brings us unknown friends

Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet....

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

He became...the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work...doing everything with simplicity....

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.....

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene.'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,'....