Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains;… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
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