836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

To speak of love is to make love.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.