Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. — Honore de Balzac Business 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
The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings. — Honore de Balzac Circles Copy Share Image
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. — Honore de Balzac Abstract Copy Share Image
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing. — Honore de Balzac Care Copy Share Image
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac Career Copy Share Image
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die. — Honore de Balzac Dies Copy Share Image
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. — Honore de Balzac Advantage 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 Children Copy Share Image
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. — Honore de Balzac Apprehension Copy Share Image
A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity. — Honore de Balzac Familiarity Copy Share Image
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done. — Honore de Balzac Business 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 Copy Share Image
A woman who has made fun of her husband can love him no more — Honore De Balzac Love Copy Share Image
In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot. — Honore de Balzac France 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
We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the… — Honore de Balzac Book Copy Share Image
The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions… — Honore de Balzac British Copy Share Image
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. — Honore de Balzac Awake 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
