Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains;… — Honoré De Balzac Great saying by great authors Copy Share Image
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind. — Honore de Balzac Intellectual Copy Share Image
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. — Honore de Balzac Majority Copy Share Image
Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor. — Honore de Balzac Labor 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 Ass Copy Share Image
Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined. — Honore de Balzac Estimation 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
“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
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 Abuse Copy Share Image
What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible. — Honore de Balzac Impossible Copy Share Image
For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience. — Honore de Balzac Bread Copy Share Image
Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we… — Honore de Balzac Acknowledge Copy Share Image
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed. — Honore de Balzac Elegant Copy Share Image
The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can. — Honore de Balzac Boxes Copy Share Image
Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex… — Honore de Balzac Brain 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
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case. — Honore de Balzac Cases Copy Share Image
Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise. — Honore de Balzac Honest Copy Share Image
“Yes, it is time I was dead; there is nothing left me to do but to die. I am no good in… — Honoré de Balzac Parenting Copy Share Image
The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy. — Honore de Balzac Creativity Copy Share Image
