We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.
Honore de BalzacIt is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.
Honore de BalzacThe woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.
Honore de BalzacThe errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true
Honore de Balzac