The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
HONORE DE BALZACThe more one judges, the less one loves.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
-
-
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZAC