Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence. — 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
Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime… — 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
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest… — 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
