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 Copy Share Image
Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by… — 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
