Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious. — Honore de Balzac Admiration Copy Share Image
Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights. — Honore de Balzac Certain Copy Share Image
The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to… — Honore de Balzac Adversity Copy Share Image
Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space. — Honore de Balzac Contracting Copy Share Image
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac Blood Copy Share Image
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which… — Honore de Balzac Amused Copy Share Image
“A ignorância é a mãe de todos os crimes, porque um crime é, antes de mais, uma falta de raciocínio.” — Honoré de Balzac Amor Copy Share Image
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. — Honore de Balzac Anatomy Copy Share Image
“Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you… — Honoré de Balzac Despair Copy Share Image
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare. — Honore de Balzac Dupes Copy Share Image
“É tão absurdo dizer que um homem não pode amar a mesma mulher toda a vida, quanto dizer que um violinista precisa… — Honoré de Balzac Amor Copy Share Image
By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves… — Honore de Balzac Believe Copy Share Image
The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom… — Honore de Balzac All occasions Copy Share Image
Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A… — Honore de Balzac Femme Copy Share Image
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains;… — Honore de Balzac Accounts Copy Share Image
Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in… — Honore de Balzac Angel Copy Share Image
Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole… — Honore de Balzac Blow Copy Share Image
“She is right,” said the baroness. “We are sent into the world to marry.” “Do you encourage her in disobedience?” said the… — Honoré de Balzac Marriage Copy Share Image
This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the… — Honore de Balzac Arise Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Civilization Copy Share Image
Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius… — Honore de Balzac Above the law Copy Share Image
One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
“Piombo and his wife, persons without education, had allowed Ginevra to study as she pleased. Following her caprices as a young girl,… — Honoré de Balzac Education Copy Share Image
No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game… — Honore de Balzac Afar Copy Share Image
A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is… — Honore de Balzac Blind 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
