Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives. — Honore de Balzac Creative Copy Share Image
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again. — Honore de Balzac Greatest Copy Share Image
Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation. — Honore de Balzac Equivocation Copy Share Image
Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts. — Honore de Balzac Anger Copy Share Image
To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier. — Honore de Balzac Desirable Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. — Honore de Balzac Power Copy Share Image
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare. — Honore de Balzac Dupes 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
“Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you… — Honoré de Balzac Despair 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
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
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
I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make… — Honore de Balzac Common Copy Share Image
Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the… — Honore de Balzac Age Copy Share Image
True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without… — Honore de Balzac Animus Copy Share Image
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring… — Honore de Balzac Chemist Copy Share Image
In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become… — Honore de Balzac Artist Copy Share Image
Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out… — Honore de Balzac Armour Copy Share Image
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it… — Honore de Balzac Credit Copy Share Image
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and… — Honore de Balzac Calculations Copy Share Image
“I haven't any objection to your thoroughly despising me, right now, because I'm convinced you'll come to love me. You'll find I… — Honoré de Balzac Convinced Copy Share Image
This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at… — Honore de Balzac Acquaintance Copy Share Image
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the… — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
“Emile was a journalist who had acquired more reputation by doing nothing than others from a successful productive career. A bold, biting,… — Honoré de Balzac Emile Copy Share Image
“However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along:… — Honoré de Balzac Burning desire Copy Share Image
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. — Honore de Balzac Conscience Copy Share Image
A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent. — Honore de Balzac Greatness Copy Share Image
Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest. — Honore de Balzac Bears Copy Share Image
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. — Honore de Balzac Courtesy Copy Share Image
Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined. — Honore de Balzac Closely Copy Share Image
