Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. — Honore de Balzac Conscience Copy Share Image
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire. — Honore de Balzac Desire Copy Share Image
Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts. — Honore de Balzac Anger Copy Share Image
Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light. — Honore de Balzac Heart Copy Share Image
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing. — Honore de Balzac Care Copy Share Image
Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I shall still live on as a memory on your palette; that shall be life for me afterward.” — Honoré de Balzac Afterlife Copy Share Image
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency. — Honore de Balzac Decency Copy Share Image
People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would… — Honore de Balzac Bears Copy Share Image
Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome… — Honore de Balzac Gems Copy Share Image
Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it… — Honore de Balzac Credit Copy Share Image
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand… — Honore de Balzac Demand Copy Share Image
“Soon this mass of ideas became harmonized, took life, seemed, as it were, to become a living individual and moved in the… — Honoré de Balzac Life Copy Share Image
Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of… — Honore de Balzac Chance Copy Share Image
Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac Career Copy Share Image
A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent. — Honore de Balzac Greatness Copy Share Image
Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest. — Honore de Balzac Bears Copy Share Image
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. — Honore de Balzac Courtesy Copy Share Image
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. — Honore de Balzac Funny Copy Share Image
The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman. — Honore de Balzac Feminism Copy Share Image
