Honoré de Balzac Quotes

“There is an element in friendship which doubles its charm and renders it indissoluble—a sense of certainty which is lacking in love.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

topic:love friendship

“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

topic:love

“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.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

topic:love passion

“Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Séraphîta

topic:love wisdom spirit

“Therefore it is that man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Séraphîta

topic:death despair

“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

topic:death feeling silence

“Happiness is the poetry of woman, as the toilette is her tinsel.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

topic:happiness woman poetry

“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

topic:happiness self others

“Worse than all, you are candid, and it often happens that our happiness depends on certain social hypocrisies to which you will never stoop.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

topic:happiness society

“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future, but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

topic:happiness memory past

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