Honore de Balzac Quotes


We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.


Citations

Balzac, Honoré de. The Physiology of Marriage. Privately Printed, 1901, p. 145.

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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.