Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — 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
