“Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.” — Honoré de Balzac Balzac Copy Share Image
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events. — Honore de Balzac Causes Copy Share Image
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.” — Honoré de Balzac Cruelty Copy Share Image
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done. — Honore de Balzac Behinds Copy Share Image
The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes. — Honore de Balzac Deceiving 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
Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious. — Honore de Balzac Admiration 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
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. — Honore de Balzac Ease 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
“However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along:… — Honoré de Balzac Burning desire Copy Share Image
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or… — Honore de Balzac Architect Copy Share Image
Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain… — Honore de Balzac Absorbing Copy Share Image
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that… — Honore de Balzac Absurd Copy Share Image
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen. — Honore de Balzac Cures Copy Share Image
“Opinions are caught like infection, and put into practice without examination.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth… — Honore de Balzac Courtesans Copy Share Image
