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Honore de Balzac Quotes: 6

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

  • The more one judges, the less one loves.

  • 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.

  • If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.