More quotes by Honore de Balzac

"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."
"And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink."
"Love is the poetry of the senses!"
"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."