The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. – 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
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
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. – Honore de Balzac
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. – Honore de Balzac
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. – Honore de Balzac
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. – Honore de Balzac
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. – Honore de Balzac
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. – Honore de Balzac
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. – Honore de Balzac
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. – Honore de Balzac
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. – Honore de Balzac
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. – Honore de Balzac
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn’t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. – Honore de Balzac
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. – Honore de Balzac
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. – Honore de Balzac
