836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.