Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact. — Honore de Balzac Criminal mind Copy Share Image
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. — Honore de Balzac Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune. — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis. — Honore de Balzac Community Copy Share Image
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore de Balzac Death Copy Share Image
“Our Father in heaven is surely on the side of fathers on earth who love their children.” — Honoré de Balzac Children 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
The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person… — Honore de Balzac Bird 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 Copy Share Image
Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons -… — Honore de Balzac Courage Copy Share Image
“Prudenta lui ii egala averea. Era de o umilinta excesiva. Niciodata orgoliul nu-l prinsese in capcanele sale. Acest negustor se facea atat… — Honore de Balzac Amor Copy Share Image
“If we could picture the thoughts of those who stand about a deathbed, what fearful sights should we not see? Money is… — Honoré de Balzac Money Copy Share Image
Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to… — Honore de Balzac Body Copy Share Image
How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy… — Honore de Balzac Children Copy Share Image
“Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress. Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is… — Honoré de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“¿No hay que haberlo experimentado todo para poder expresarlo todo? Y sentir vivamente, ¿no es sufrir? Por consiguiente, las poesías no se… — Honoré de Balzac Amor Copy Share Image
You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth. — Honore de Balzac Heart Copy Share Image
“Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.” — Honoré de Balzac Balzac Copy Share Image
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought. — Honore de Balzac Beautiful Copy Share Image
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
