More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
