“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster which devours everything, that is, familiarity.”

— Honoré de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage (1829)

About Honoré de Balzac

1799 – 1850

French novelist, author of "La Comédie humaine".

“All human power is a compound of time and patience.”

“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.”

“Being a good mother means teaching your children to care for the world.”

“The first bond of society is marriage; the next, our children; then the whole family and all things in common.”

“A good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude.”

“The best friend will probably get the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.”

“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”

“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”