Humans Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

— Honore de Balzac

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

— Honore de Balzac

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

— Honore de Balzac

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

— Honore de Balzac

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

— Honore de Balzac

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

— Honore de Balzac

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way…

— Honore de Balzac

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly.…

— Honore de Balzac

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery…

— Honore de Balzac

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to…

— Honore de Balzac

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

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner…

— Honore de Balzac

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their…

— Honore de Balzac

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in…

— Honore de Balzac

All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can…

— Honore de Balzac

Thinking is seeing… Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up…

— Honore de Balzac

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or…

— Honore de Balzac

What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden…

— Honore de Balzac

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates…

— Honore de Balzac

White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of…

— Honore de Balzac

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the…

— Honore de Balzac

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being…

— Honore de Balzac