In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a… — Honore de Balzac Father Copy Share Image
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery… — Honore de Balzac Affection Copy Share Image
Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among… — Honore de Balzac Feelings Copy Share Image
No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea. — Honore de Balzac Conjugal Copy Share Image
Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all… — Honore de Balzac Credulous Copy Share Image
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. — Honore de Balzac Country Copy Share Image
In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted. — Honore de Balzac Affair Copy Share Image
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us… — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child.… — Honore de Balzac Children Copy Share Image
Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is… — Honore de Balzac Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and… — Honore de Balzac Advantage Copy Share Image
If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering… — Honore De Balzac Adultery Copy Share Image
L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art. — Honore de Balzac Amour Copy Share Image
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Yes, it is time I was dead; there is nothing left me to do but to die. I am no good in… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven. — Honore de Balzac Actors Copy Share Image
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent… — Honore de Balzac Flower Copy Share Image
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs… — Honore de Balzac 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
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space. — Honore de Balzac 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 Amor Copy Share Image
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. — Honore de Balzac Anatomy 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
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical… — Honore de Balzac Life Copy Share Image
“Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her… — Honoré de Balzac Aversion Copy Share Image
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
