Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of… — Honore de Balzac Chance 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
“Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on… — Honoré de Balzac Business Copy Share Image
To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck… — Honore de Balzac Country 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
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
“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
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling. — Honore de Balzac Emotion 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
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
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
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
“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 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
In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that… — Honore de Balzac Accepting 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
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
“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
Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature. — Honore de Balzac Contrary Copy Share Image
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. — Honore de Balzac Body love Copy Share Image
God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven. — Honore de Balzac Books Copy Share Image
Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion. — Honore de Balzac Girl Copy Share Image
An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities. — Honore de Balzac Henry v Copy Share Image
“Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.” — Honore de Balzac Christianity Copy Share Image
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by… — Honore de Balzac Career Copy Share Image
Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves! — Honore de Balzac Animals Copy Share Image
Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything:… — Honore de Balzac Combat Copy Share Image
Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their… — Honore de Balzac Conscience Copy Share Image
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond… — Honore de Balzac Fond memories Copy Share Image
Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is… — Honore de Balzac Forgiveness 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
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
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
