Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore De Balzac

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
Honore De Balzac

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Honore de Balzac

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore De Balzac

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
Honore De Balzac

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
Honore De Balzac

Finance, like time, devours its own children.
Honore de Balzac

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

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
Honore De Balzac

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Honore de Balzac

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Honore de Balzac

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de Balzac

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

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore de Balzac

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Honore de Balzac

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

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Honore de Balzac

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
Honore De Balzac