Honore de Balzac

The more one judges, the less one loves. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#less #loves #more

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#big #caught #flies #get #laws

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#belief #fortifies #friend #nothing #one friend

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#difficult #easy #getting #notice #sit

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#awake #first #go #good #good husband

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#credit #crimes #even #everything #forgive

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#anatomy #dissected #least #man #marry

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#behind #crime #every #fortune #lies

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#commands #distinct #fact #gives #kinds

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#itself #love #may #ought #reveal