Honoré de Balzac Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love. Père Goriot

2. All happiness depends on courage and work.

3. And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

4. for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

5. If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down. Père Goriot

6. Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

7. Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

8. Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. Père Goriot

9. The more one judges, the less one loves. Physiologie Du Mariage

10. Love is the poetry of the senses!

11. Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls? Père Goriot