To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved. — Honore de Balzac Inspirational Copy Share Image
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen. — Honore de Balzac Particular Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Know how Copy Share Image
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture. — Honore de Balzac Atheism Copy Share Image
Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad. — Honore de Balzac Believe Copy Share Image
In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it. — Honore de Balzac Artist Copy Share Image
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 Adversity Copy Share Image
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac Blood 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 Amor Copy Share Image
“Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you… — Honoré de Balzac Despair 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 Dupes Copy Share Image
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 Anti bullying Copy Share Image
I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make… — Honore de Balzac Common Copy Share Image
Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us… — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street… — Honore de Balzac Cost Copy Share Image
“É tão absurdo dizer que um homem não pode amar a mesma mulher toda a vida, quanto dizer que um violinista precisa… — Honoré de Balzac Amor Copy Share Image
By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves… — Honore de Balzac Believe Copy Share Image
Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A… — Honore de Balzac Femme Copy Share Image
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains;… — Honore de Balzac Accounts Copy Share Image
In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the… — Honore de Balzac Blank 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… — Honoré de Balzac Humor Copy Share Image
“took place toward the end of the month of July, 1815. The second return of the Bourbons had shaken many friendships which… — Honoré de Balzac Family Copy Share Image
According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between… — Honore de Balzac Animal Copy Share Image
“No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love… — Honoré de Balzac Emotion Copy Share Image
“To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and… — Honoré de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Civilization Copy Share Image
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 Above the law Copy Share Image
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