Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many… — Honore de Balzac Charity Copy Share Image
Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her. — Honore de Balzac Angel Copy Share Image
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows. — Honore de Balzac Investment Copy Share Image
Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact. — Honore de Balzac Facts Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Knows Copy Share Image
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude. — Honore de Balzac Certainty Copy Share Image
“She was white like the sands, tawny like the sands, solitary and burning like the sands.” — Honoré de Balzac Burning Like Copy Share Image
Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion. — Honore de Balzac Compassion Copy Share Image
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a… — Honore de Balzac Annoying Copy Share Image
Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a… — Honore de Balzac Alas Copy Share Image
“Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly… — Honoré de Balzac Creatures Copy Share Image
What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when… — Honore de Balzac Concorde Copy Share Image
Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and… — Honore de Balzac Abstract Copy Share Image
I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me… — Honore de Balzac Attainment Copy Share Image
Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no… — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows… — Honore de Balzac Aspect Copy Share Image
Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers. — Honore de Balzac Amount Copy Share Image
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. — Honore de Balzac Despotism Copy Share Image
La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave… — Honore de Balzac Femme Copy Share Image
To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless. — Honore de Balzac Granada Copy Share Image
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of… — Honore de Balzac Iron Copy Share Image
To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two? — Honore de Balzac Bears Copy Share Image
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues. — Honore de Balzac Force Copy Share Image
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife. — Honore de Balzac Advice Copy Share Image
“The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.” — Honoré de Balzac Blasphemy Copy Share Image
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. — Honore de Balzac Enigmas Copy Share Image
Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy. — Honore de Balzac Ambition Copy Share Image
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
“Mes enfants, you mustn't go at things head-on, you are too weak; take it from me and take it from an angle...… — Honoré de Balzac Weak Copy Share Image
The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money. — Honore de Balzac Deals Copy Share Image
“Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below… — Honoré de Balzac Career Copy Share Image
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible. — Honore de Balzac Behinds 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
He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading… — Honore de Balzac Animal Copy Share Image
A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all… — Honore de Balzac Breastfeeding Copy Share Image
When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned. — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing… — Honore de Balzac Couple Copy Share Image
“The duchess turned on Eugène with one of those insolent stares that envelop a man from head to foot, flatten him out,… — Honoré de Balzac Description Copy Share Image
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a… — Honore de Balzac Every moment Copy Share Image
The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion isalways either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of… — Honoré De Balzac Rebellious Copy Share Image
