Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power. — Honore de Balzac Feelings Copy Share Image
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. — Honore de Balzac Country Copy Share Image
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought. — Honore de Balzac Born Copy Share Image
White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young. — Honore de Balzac Age Copy Share Image
Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently. — Honore de Balzac Be kind Copy Share Image
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does. — Honore de Balzac Body Copy Share Image
Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad. — Honore de Balzac Believe Copy Share Image
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. — Honore de Balzac Majority Copy Share Image
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and… — Honore de Balzac Calculations Copy Share Image
Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even… — Honore de Balzac Answers Copy Share Image
To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck… — Honore de Balzac Country Copy Share Image
“It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several… — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
“Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is… — Honoré de Balzac Courtesans Copy Share Image
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand… — Honore de Balzac Demand Copy Share Image
How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy… — Honore de Balzac Children Copy Share Image
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite… — Honore de Balzac Amour Copy Share Image
One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an… — Honore de Balzac Advantage Copy Share Image
Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks,… — Honore de Balzac Achieve Copy Share Image
A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who… — Honore de Balzac Eye 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
No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game… — Honore de Balzac Afar Copy Share Image
“There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. The superior man espouses… — Honoré de Balzac Good and bad 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
