One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de Balzac

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
Honore De Balzac

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
Honore De Balzac

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Honore De Balzac

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Honore de Balzac

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Honore de Balzac

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Honore de Balzac

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
Honore 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?
Honore De Balzac

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honore De Balzac

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
Honore de Balzac

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Honore de Balzac

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Honore de Balzac

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
Honore De Balzac

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
Honore De Balzac

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Honore De Balzac