“A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.” ~Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
“A mother who is really a mother is never free." ~Honore de Balzac, "Letters of Two Brides"
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea." ~Honore de Balzac
"All human power is a compound of time and patience." ~Honoré de Balzac, Eugenie Grandet (1833)
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." ~Honore de Balzac
"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God." ~Honore de Balzac
“It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music.” ~Honoré de Balzac
"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action." ~Honore de Balzac
"Love is the poetry of the senses." ~Honoré de Balzac
"Most quarrels arise from the fact that there are both wise men and fools who are incapable of seeing more than one side of any fact or idea, and each asserts that the side he sees is the only true and right one." ~Honore de Balzac
"Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. We show no more mercy to the affection that reveals its utmost extent than we do to another kind of prodigal who has not a penny left." ~Honoré de Balzac, Le Père Goriot (1835)
“Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.” ~Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"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 more one judges, the less one loves." ~Honore de Balzac
"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one." ~Honore De Balzac
"The organ is in truth the grandest, the most daring, the most magnificent of all instruments invented by human genius." ~Honoré de Balzac
"The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed." ~Honore Balzac
"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power." ~Honore de Balzac
"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations:it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." ~Honore de Balzac
"Young men at his age take no account of obstacles nor of dangers; they see success in every direction; imagination has free play, and turns their lives into a romance; they are saddened or discouraged by the collapse of one of the visionary schemes that have no existence save in their heated fancy. If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible." -from Old Goriot (1835) by Honoré de Balzac
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