836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

We love because we love.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.