Honore de Balzac

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

A woman seen by all is a woman wished for; hence the terrible power of actresses.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Obojętność jest jak lód polarny na biegunach: zabija wszystko.

Ci, którzy znają miłość w jej bezmiarach wiedzą, że nie sposób kosztować jej rozkoszy, nie przyswoiwszy sobie jej cnót.

W miłości-nie mówiąc o jej stronie duchowej-kobieta jest jak instrument muzyczny, który odsłania swe tajniki tylko temu, kto umie biegle nim władać

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.