Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. — Honore de Balzac Fine Copy Share Image
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken… — Honore de Balzac Caprice Copy Share Image
Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine… — Honore de Balzac Achieve 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
The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have… — Honore de Balzac Couple Copy Share Image
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with… — Honore de Balzac Dismay Copy Share Image
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors. — Honore de Balzac Affair Copy Share Image
Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and… — Honore de Balzac Advantage Copy Share Image
When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and… — Honore de Balzac Disgusting Copy Share Image
What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? — Honore de Balzac Inspirational Copy Share Image
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought. — Honore de Balzac Born Copy Share Image
To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer — Honore De Balzac Men and women Copy Share Image
It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought… — Honore de Balzac Century Copy Share Image
The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper… — Honore de Balzac Cloaks Copy Share Image
One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others. — Honore de Balzac Habit Copy Share Image
Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among… — Honore de Balzac Feelings Copy Share Image
“Whoever wishes to rise above the common level must be prepared for a great struggle and recoil before no obstacle. A great… — Honoré de Balzac French literature Copy Share Image
The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it. — Honore de Balzac Illegal Copy Share Image
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her. — Honore de Balzac Abandon Copy Share Image
