836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

When women love us they forgive everything.