Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. — Honore de Balzac Absolutes Copy Share Image
Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault. — Honore de Balzac Faults Copy Share Image
The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius. — Honore de Balzac Endless Copy Share Image
Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts. — Honore de Balzac Angel 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… — Honore de Balzac Beautiful Copy Share Image
Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready… — Honore de Balzac Choices 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 Echoes Copy Share Image
“Opinions are caught like infection, and put into practice without examination.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic… — Honore de Balzac Accomplish Copy Share Image
For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women,… — Honore de Balzac Businessman Copy Share Image
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of… — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour… — Honore de Balzac Doe Copy Share Image
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and… — Honore de Balzac Business Copy Share Image
One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a… — Honore de Balzac Continuity Copy Share Image
When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the… — Honore de Balzac Appropriate Copy Share Image
As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of… — Honore de Balzac Men Copy Share Image
For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds. — Honore de Balzac Exaggeration Copy Share Image
Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things. — Honore de Balzac Feel good Copy Share Image
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his… — Honore de Balzac Clergy 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
A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation. — Honore de Balzac Born Copy Share Image
Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them. — Honore de Balzac Feelings Copy Share Image
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
“ Daca inima omeneasca afla clipe de ragaz in timp ce urca pe culmile afectiunii, rareori se opreste pe povarnisul abrupt al… — Honore de Balzac Amor Copy Share Image
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore De Balzac Easier Copy Share Image
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has… — Honore de Balzac Life Copy Share Image
Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our… — Honore de Balzac Arise Copy Share Image
Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself. — Honore de Balzac Courtiers Copy Share Image
Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will? — Honore de Balzac Feelings Copy Share Image
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones. — Honore de Balzac Bigs Copy Share Image
Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy. — Honore de Balzac Happy thoughts 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 Hate Copy Share Image
There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. — Honore de Balzac Circumstances Copy Share Image
It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of… — Honore de Balzac Damage Copy Share Image
Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects. — Honore de Balzac Advantage Copy Share Image
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are. — Honore de Balzac Fortunate Copy Share Image
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers. — Honore de Balzac Careful Copy Share Image
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. — Honore de Balzac Constantly Copy Share Image
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the… — Honore de Balzac Fall Copy Share Image
