“I shall still live on as a memory on your palette; that shall be life for me afterward.” — Honoré de Balzac Afterlife Copy Share Image
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences. — Honore de Balzac Dupes Copy Share Image
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one… — Honore de Balzac Absolutely nothing Copy Share Image
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike. — Honore de Balzac Force Copy Share Image
“If only I could bear all your sorrows for you! . . . Ah! you were so happy when you were little… — Honoré de Balzac Grief Copy Share Image
Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge. — Honore de Balzac Charm Copy Share Image
In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women. — Honore de Balzac Fashion Copy Share Image
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates… — Honore de Balzac Achieve Copy Share Image
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. — Honore de Balzac Duration Copy Share Image
“A ignorância é a mãe de todos os crimes, porque um crime é, antes de mais, uma falta de raciocínio.” — Honoré de Balzac Crime Copy Share Image
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events… — Honore de Balzac Events Copy Share Image
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work. — Honore de Balzac Details Copy Share Image
We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too… — Honore de Balzac Success Copy Share Image
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions. — Honore de Balzac Form Copy Share Image
Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand,… — Honore de Balzac Babbling Copy Share Image
Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such… — Honore de Balzac Character 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
Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man. — Honore de Balzac Dictionary Copy Share Image
Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power. — Honore de Balzac Feelings Copy Share Image
“Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below… — Honoré de Balzac Career Copy Share Image
