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Honoré de Balzac — Portrait after a picture by Louis-Auguste Bisson (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Honoré de Balzac

French novelist and playwright

1799–1850

10 quotes, most often on Love and Power.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)
- Love
- Marriage
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.
A Woman of Thirty (1842), Ch. III: At Thirty Years
- Love
True love is eternal, infinite, always like unto itself; it is equable, pure, without violent demonstration; white hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.
The Lily of the Valley (1835), Part II: First Love, as translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- Age
- Love

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