Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. — Honore de Balzac Education Copy Share Image
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. — Honore de Balzac Animals Copy Share Image
A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion. — Honore de Balzac Atheism Copy Share Image
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture. — Honore de Balzac Atheism Copy Share Image
Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
“Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her… — Honoré de Balzac Aversion Copy Share Image
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical… — Honore de Balzac Life Copy Share Image
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac Action 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
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Ha a nők elmésnek, tehetségesnek találják, a férfiak el fogják hinni, hogy az, hacsak maga ki nem ábrándítja őket. Akkor aztán mindent… — Honoré de Balzac Balzac Copy Share Image
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly.… — Honore de Balzac Abuse Copy Share Image
The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have… — Honore de Balzac Couple Copy Share Image
A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be… — Honore de Balzac Beautiful Copy Share Image
The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions… — Honore de Balzac British Copy Share Image
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that… — Honore de Balzac Absurd Copy Share Image
Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding. — Honore de Balzac Beginning Copy Share Image
Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise. — Honore de Balzac Honest Copy Share Image
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity. — Honore de Balzac Feminism Copy Share Image
You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth. — Honore de Balzac Heart Copy Share Image
“Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.” — Honoré de Balzac Balzac Copy Share Image
Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis. — Honore de Balzac Community Copy Share Image
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore de Balzac Death Copy Share Image
Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune. — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. — Honore de Balzac Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
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