Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives. — Honore de Balzac Creative Copy Share Image
What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? — Honore de Balzac Inspirational Copy Share Image
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan. — Honore de Balzac Defeat Copy Share Image
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur. — Honore de Balzac Bankruptcy Copy Share Image
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.” — Honoré de Balzac Cruelty Copy Share Image
What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. — Honore de Balzac Bride Copy Share Image
“...a clerk, a machine, a riding-school hack, eating and drinking and sleeping at fixed hours. I should be like everyone else. And… — Honoré de Balzac Computers Copy Share Image
I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the… — Honore de Balzac Age Copy Share Image
True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without… — Honore de Balzac Animus Copy Share Image
“¿No hay que haberlo experimentado todo para poder expresarlo todo? Y sentir vivamente, ¿no es sufrir? Por consiguiente, las poesías no se… — Honoré de Balzac Amor Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility,… — Honore de Balzac Anti bullying Copy Share Image
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac Eternal Copy Share Image
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live…… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at… — Honore de Balzac Acquaintance Copy Share Image
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the… — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
“A valley full of genuine suffering, and of joys that often turn out to be false, and so incredibly tumultuous that it… — Honoré de Balzac Grief Copy Share Image
“I haven't any objection to your thoroughly despising me, right now, because I'm convinced you'll come to love me. You'll find I… — Honoré 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 Burning desire Copy Share Image
“Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is… — Honoré de Balzac Dignity Copy Share Image
“Emile was a journalist who had acquired more reputation by doing nothing than others from a successful productive career. A bold, biting,… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor. — Honore de Balzac Labor Copy Share Image
In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women. — Honore de Balzac Fashion Copy Share Image
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. — Honore de Balzac Great power Copy Share Image
