836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

The union of a want and a sentiment.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.