The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings. — Honore de Balzac Circles Copy Share Image
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. — Honore de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire. — Honore de Balzac Desire Copy Share Image
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable. — Honore de Balzac Bearable Copy Share Image
In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge. — Honore de Balzac Carriage Copy Share Image
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness. — Honore de Balzac Doubt Copy Share Image
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac Career Copy Share Image
Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors. — Honore de Balzac Conqueror Copy Share Image
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. — Honore de Balzac Apprehension Copy Share Image
You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for… — Honore de Balzac Cockiness Copy Share Image
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant. — Honore de Balzac Doe Copy Share Image
In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot. — Honore de Balzac France Copy Share Image
Courage is the fire that burns in the cold,dark room of fear and doubt that we live in. — Honore De Balzac Courage Copy Share Image
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman. — Honore de Balzac Inspirational Copy Share Image
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. — Honore de Balzac Belief Copy Share Image
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. — Honore de Balzac Business Copy Share Image
Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves. — Honore de Balzac Love Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral… — Honore De Balzac Ideas Copy Share Image
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac Human nature Copy Share Image
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination. — Honore de Balzac Creation Copy Share Image
“who had not felt his daughter’s heart beat against his breast for ten years, “do you want me to die of joy?” — Honoré de Balzac Children Copy Share Image
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for… — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the… — Honore de Balzac Acquire Copy Share Image
Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward… — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac Careless Copy Share Image
“A man like you is a god, not just a machine covered with skin, but a theater where fine feelings sprout and… — Honoré de Balzac Computers Copy Share Image
“Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.” — Honoré de Balzac Child Copy Share Image
A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness.… — Honore de Balzac Adore Copy Share Image
When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks… — Honore de Balzac Appearance Copy Share Image
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac Earth Copy Share Image
“Ak mladík v dievčati prebudí lásku a potom odíde, je to ako keď umelec opustí v polovici majstrovské dielo.” — Honoré de Balzac Toga Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier. — Honore de Balzac Feels Copy Share Image
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. — Honore de Balzac Awake Copy Share Image
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity. — Honore de Balzac Courage Copy Share Image
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. — Honore de Balzac Advantage Copy Share Image
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. — Honore de Balzac Abstract Copy Share Image
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. — Honore de Balzac Anticipation 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
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. — Honore de Balzac Lying 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
