Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac Amount 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
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption. — Honore de Balzac Claims 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
“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
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe. — Honore de Balzac Dupes Copy Share Image
“She was white like the sands, tawny like the sands, solitary and burning like the sands.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me.… — Honore de Balzac Accusing 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
It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers. — Honore de Balzac People Copy Share Image
Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word. — Honore de Balzac Break 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
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
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
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand… — Honore de Balzac Demand Copy Share Image
And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world — Honore De Balzac Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will. — Honore de Balzac Feelings Copy Share Image
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. — Honore de Balzac Lying Copy Share Image
The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man. — Honore de Balzac Animal Copy Share Image
