More From Honore de Balzac
- "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."
- "First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."
- "A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."
More In Great
- "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."― Robert Kennedy
- "Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision."― James Thurber
- "It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean."― John Locke