“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.” Honore de Balzac LiarMarriage
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.” Honore de Balzac LoveTime
“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.” Honore de Balzac LoveStupidWoman
“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.” Honore de Balzac FriendsLie
“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.” Honore de Balzac HistoryPassion
“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.” Honore de Balzac LawLie
“To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.” Honore de Balzac War
“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.” Honore de Balzac BeautyWoman
“The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.” Honore de Balzac ActionGeniusGreatest
“Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.” Honore de Balzac GoodLove
“But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.” Honore de Balzac PositiveTime
“Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.” Honore de Balzac Love
“The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.” Honore de Balzac PassionWoman
“It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.” Honore de Balzac LoveTimeWitty
“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.” Honore de Balzac HistoryPassion
“If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.” Honore de Balzac Life
“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.” Honore de Balzac Bad
