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
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 deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage. — Honore de Balzac Advantage 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
“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
Thinking is seeing… Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up… — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your… — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in… — Honore de Balzac Affection Copy Share Image
Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded;… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“He will show you how, during the springtime of life, illusions, innocent hopes, silver threads of gossamer, descend from heaven and return… — Honore de Balzac Hope Copy Share Image
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Some sentiment other than love united these two beings, and inspired with mutual anxiety their movements and their thoughts. Misery is, perhaps,… — Honoré de Balzac Love 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
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences. — Honore de Balzac Dupe Copy Share Image
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, ... — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at… — Honore de Balzac Girl Copy Share Image
A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry. — Honore de Balzac Coquetry 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
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur. — Honore de Balzac Bankruptcy Copy Share Image
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.” — Honoré de Balzac Cruelty Copy Share Image
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.” — Honoré de Balzac First love Copy Share Image
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable. — Honore de Balzac Desire Copy Share Image
“Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.” — Honore de Balzac Christianity Copy Share Image
Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival. — Honore de Balzac Confidant Copy Share Image
