Quote by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

• Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

• The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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

• Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

• First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

• All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.