A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought. — Honore de Balzac Beautiful Copy Share Image
No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion. — Honore de Balzac Catholic Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.” — Honoré de Balzac Discipline Copy Share Image
Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he… — Honore de Balzac Action 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 Image
“If you decide to join up with me, I want it to be because you're making a rational choice, not because you've… — Honoré de Balzac Choice Copy Share Image
Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not… — Honore de Balzac Clubs Copy Share Image
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion. — Honore de Balzac Absolutes Copy Share Image
Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power. — Honore de Balzac Feelings Copy Share Image
“I used to want to know everything, to be learned; and one thing I did learn thoroughly — I knew that I… — Honoré de Balzac Education Copy Share Image
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward… — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in… — Honore de Balzac Alchemy Copy Share Image
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along:… — Honoré de Balzac First person Copy Share Image
“The words came from him like a sob, a hoarse sound like the death rattle of a dying man; it seemed indeed… — Honoré de Balzac Death Copy Share Image
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“You haven't yet given me the right to obey you when you say: 'I want to.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact. — Honore de Balzac Criminal mind Copy Share Image
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! — Honore de Balzac Girl Copy Share Image
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return? — Honore de Balzac Envy Copy Share Image
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her. — Honore de Balzac Husband Copy Share Image
Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity? — Honore de Balzac Crush Copy Share Image
A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste. — Honore de Balzac Boarding school Copy Share Image
“I had youth, beauty, two advantages conferred by chance, and of which we are as proud as if they were hard-won.” — Honoré de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings. — Honore de Balzac Circles Copy Share Image
