Honore de Balzac Quotes


Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.


Citations

Balzac, Honoré de. The Physiology of Marriage. Privately Printed, 1904, p. 215.

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Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac
  • Born: May 20, 1799
  • Died: August 18, 1850
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Writer, Critic, Journalist

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.