A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.
Honore de BalzacFriendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
Honore de BalzacNoble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
Honore de BalzacThe secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
Honore de BalzacThe woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
Honore de Balzac