836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.