More quotes by Honore de Balzac

"All happiness depends on courage and work."
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."
"And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink."
"The more one judges, the less one loves."