In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice. — Honore de Balzac Clothes Copy Share Image
For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth. — Honore de Balzac Christianity Copy Share Image
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves. — Honore de Balzac Charity Copy Share Image
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. — Honore de Balzac Happiness Copy Share Image
Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you… — Honoré de Balzac Despair Copy Share Image
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done. — Honore de Balzac Business Copy Share Image
Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady… — Honore de Balzac Body Copy Share Image
“Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion history art and romance would be useless.” — Honore De Balzac Humanity Copy Share Image
Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise… — Honore de Balzac Benediction Copy Share Image
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and… — Honore de Balzac Love Copy Share Image
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become… — Honore de Balzac Artist Copy Share Image
The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces… — Honore de Balzac Attention Copy Share Image
Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about… — Honore de Balzac Children Copy Share Image
Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such… — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste. — Honore de Balzac Chaste Copy Share Image
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“There's nothing so fearsome as the revolt of a sheep," said de Marsay.” — Honoré de Balzac Fear Copy Share Image
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. — Honore de Balzac Pregnancy Copy Share Image
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. — Honore de Balzac Business Copy Share Image
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
