836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

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

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

La solitude est une belle chose; mais il faut quelqu'un pour vous dire que la solitude est une belle chose.

Love is the poetry of the senses!

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

Вера в себя способна творить такие же чудеса, как вера в Господа Бога.