Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac Careless Copy Share Image
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. — Honore de Balzac Anticipation 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
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else. — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate. — Honore de Balzac Resignation Copy Share Image
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman. — Honore de Balzac Inspirational Copy Share Image
Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors. — Honore de Balzac Conqueror Copy Share Image
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac Genuine 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
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. — Honore de Balzac Beauty Copy Share Image
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac Career 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
You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for… — Honore de Balzac Cockiness 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
Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state. — Honore de Balzac Female Copy Share Image
