"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."
                
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            Honore de Balzac
14 quotes
Quotes by Honore de Balzac
"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."
"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
"Love is the poetry of the senses!"
"Reading brings us unknown friends"
"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love."
"And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink."
"for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea"
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
"Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine."
"All happiness depends on courage and work."
"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside."
"The more one judges, the less one loves."