Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.
Honore de BalzacWhat makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
Honore de BalzacChildren, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore de Balzac