The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. — Honore de Balzac Husband Copy Share Image
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed! — Honore de Balzac Clever Copy Share Image
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste. — Honore de Balzac Chaste Copy Share Image
There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. — Honore de Balzac Audacity Copy Share Image
A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage. — Honore de Balzac Advantage Copy Share Image
“Fathers must always be giving if they would be happy themselves; always giving — they would not be fathers else.” — Honoré de Balzac Fathers Copy Share Image
“Existe esa clase de goces que solamente pueden saborearse entre dos, de poeta a poeta, de corazón a corazón.” — Honoré de Balzac Amor Copy Share Image
“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can turn it into a fact.” — Honoré de Balzac Equality 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
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The most callous of her guests admired her as young Rome applauded some gladiator who could die smiling.” — Honoré de Balzac 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome… — Honore de Balzac Gems Copy Share Image
There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would… — Honore de Balzac Bears Copy Share Image
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac Eternal Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility,… — Honore de Balzac Anti bullying Copy Share Image
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
“There's nothing so fearsome as the revolt of a sheep," said de Marsay.” — Honoré de Balzac Fear Copy Share Image
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. — Honore de Balzac Business Copy Share Image
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. — Honore de Balzac Pregnancy Copy Share Image
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. — Honore de Balzac Power Copy Share Image
Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth. — Honore de Balzac Earth Copy Share Image
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. — Honore de Balzac Lying Copy Share Image
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. — Honore de Balzac Abstract Copy Share Image
