We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.Honore de Balzac
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.Honore de Balzac
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.Honore de Balzac
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.Honore de Balzac
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.Honore de Balzac
