Quotes from Balzac

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

El amor que nace de repente es el más largo de curar.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

Être aimé d'elle, ou mourir.

To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.

C'était une de ces soirées délicieuses à l'âme, un de ces moments qui ne s'oublient jamais, une de ces heures passées dans la paix et le désir, et dont, plus tard, le charme est toujours un sujet de regret, même quand nous nous trouvons plus heureux.

In the desert there is everything and nothing-- God without mankind.

Love which economizes is never true love.

On my honor, I believe it is characteristic of virtue to have nothing to do with riches!" thought he.

La femme mariée est une esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un trône.

Das war die Frau mit ihren plötzlichen Ängsten, ihren grundlosen Launen, ihren unwillkürlichen Verwirrungen, ihren unmotivierten Kühnheiten, ihren Wagnissen und ihrer reizenden Zartheit der Gefühle.

Nous n'y connaissons pas encore de remède au mal que produit une phrase.

Isn't it curious that ever since man has walked, no one has asked why he walks, or how, or if he could improve his walking, or what he does when he walks, whether one could not impose his walking, change or scrutinize it—issues that are integral to all the philosophical, psychological or political systems that have occupied the world?

Money without honor is a disease

If you really want to be universal, do it from your own country.

Mi-e scârb? s?-mi prostituez propriile mele emo?ii în public ?i nimic din ceea ce mi se întâmpl? nu va fi cunoscut vreodat?.

Sunt fericiri în care nu mai crezi. Ele vin ca o lovitur? de tr?znet ?i te mistuie.