When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work. — Honore de Balzac Details Copy Share Image
“Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion history art and romance would be useless.” — Honore De Balzac Humanity Copy Share Image
No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect. — Honore de Balzac Creatures Copy Share Image
Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance. — Honore de Balzac Arise Copy Share Image
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light. — Honore de Balzac Heart Copy Share Image
What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible. — Honore de Balzac Impossible Copy Share Image
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. — Honore de Balzac Happiness Copy Share Image
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency. — Honore de Balzac Decency Copy Share Image
“So often it happens that this one or that stands condemned by the social laws that govern family relations; and yet there… — Honoré de Balzac Family Copy Share Image
“She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling… — Honoré de Balzac Lily Copy Share Image
He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the… — Honore de Balzac Boxes Copy Share Image
It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary… — Honore de Balzac Authority Copy Share Image
The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes… — Honore de Balzac Despise Copy Share Image
One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was… — Honore de Balzac Book Copy Share Image
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no… — Honore de Balzac Compelled Copy Share Image
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with… — Honore de Balzac Dismay Copy Share Image
“The more he saw, the more he doubted. He watched men narrowly, and saw how, beneath the surface, courage was often rashness;… — Honore de Balzac Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought… — Honore de Balzac Century Copy Share Image
“There are men who put the weight of a coffin into their deliberations as they bargain for Cashmere shawls for their wives,… — Honore de Balzac Dear ones 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;… — Honoré De Balzac Great saying by great authors Copy Share Image
“Live here, in Paris,” resumed the First Consul, addressing Bartolomeo; “we will know nothing of this affair. I will cause your property… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who… — Honore de Balzac Eye Copy Share Image
In France, and at the most important period of our history, Catherine de' Medici has suffered more from popular error than any… — Honoré De Balzac Face to face Copy Share Image
“Látta feje fölött elrepülni a démont, akit oly könnyű angyalnak nézni, a csillogó szárnyú sátánt, aki drágaköveket hajigál, aranynyilait a paloták homlokzatára… — Honoré de Balzac Hungarian Copy Share Image
The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can. — Honore de Balzac Boxes Copy Share Image
For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience. — Honore de Balzac Bread Copy Share Image
