The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“A ignorância é a mãe de todos os crimes, porque um crime é, antes de mais, uma falta de raciocínio.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when… — Honore de Balzac 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
What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for,… — 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 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
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — 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 the lion… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
