The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man. — Honore de Balzac Animal Copy Share Image
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer — Honore De Balzac Men and women Copy Share Image
For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience. — Honore de Balzac Bread Copy Share Image
To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility. — Honore de Balzac Drunk Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not. — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed. — Honore de Balzac Desire Copy Share Image
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Yes, it is time I was dead; there is nothing left me to do but to die. I am no good in… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences. — Honore de Balzac Dupe Copy Share Image
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, ... — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at… — Honore de Balzac Girl Copy Share Image
A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry. — Honore de Balzac Coquetry Copy Share Image
One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was… — Honore de Balzac Book Copy Share Image
The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary… — Honore de Balzac Authority Copy Share Image
He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so… — Honore de Balzac Beautiful Copy Share Image
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with… — Honore de Balzac Dismay Copy Share Image
It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss… — Honore de Balzac Affair Copy Share Image
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius… — Honore de Balzac Above the law Copy Share Image
There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Yes,' Montriveau went on in an unsteady voice, 'this Catholic faith to which you wish to convert me is a lie that… — Honoré de Balzac Lies 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 Communication 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
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 Ark Copy Share Image
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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