“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster which devours everything, that is, familiarity.”
Honoré de Balzac Quotes
1799 – 1850
French novelist, author of "La Comédie humaine".
25 quotesAbout Honoré de Balzac on Wikipedia
“Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.”
“Men are like that, they can resist sound argument, yet yield to a glance.”
“Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.”
“Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares.”
“Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.”
“The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.”
“I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.”
“If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.”
“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”
“Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.”
“Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world.”
“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations.”
“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.”
“The provinces are provinces; they are only ridiculous when they mimic Paris.”
