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Honoré de Balzac Quotes: 10

  • Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

  • Reading brings us unknown friends

  • All happiness depends on courage and work.

  • Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

    Père Goriot
  • 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.

  • A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

    Père Goriot
  • Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

    Père Goriot
  • Love is the poetry of the senses!

  • And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.