The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us. — Honore de Balzac Funny Copy Share Image
Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius.… — Honore de Balzac Binary Copy Share Image
“What do we know of the world, of business, or men, or life? Our fathers should think for us!” — Honoré de Balzac Business Copy Share Image
Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need… — Honore de Balzac Death Copy Share Image
Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of… — Honore de Balzac Damage Copy Share Image
It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin… — Honore de Balzac Ecstasy Copy Share Image
With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants… — Honore de Balzac 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
Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything:… — Honore de Balzac Combat 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
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects. — Honore de Balzac Advantage Copy Share Image
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. — Honore de Balzac Hate Copy Share Image
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy. — Honore de Balzac Happy thoughts Copy Share Image
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling. — Honore de Balzac Emotion Copy Share Image
Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will? — Honore de Balzac Feelings Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Ak mladík v dievčati prebudí lásku a potom odíde, je to ako keď umelec opustí v polovici majstrovské dielo.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has… — Honore de Balzac Dramas Copy Share Image
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore De Balzac Copy Share Image
“ Daca inima omeneasca afla clipe de ragaz in timp ce urca pe culmile afectiunii, rareori se opreste pe povarnisul abrupt al… — Honore de Balzac Amor Copy Share Image
Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself. — Honore de Balzac Courtiers Copy Share Image
Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac Earth Copy Share Image
Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion. — Honore de Balzac Compassion Copy Share Image
“She was white like the sands, tawny like the sands, solitary and burning like the sands.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave… — Honore de Balzac Femme Copy Share Image
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. — Honore de Balzac Despotism Copy Share Image
Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact. — Honore de Balzac Facts Copy Share Image
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude. — Honore de Balzac Certainty Copy Share Image
