My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many… — Honore de Balzac Charity Copy Share Image
No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority… — Honore de Balzac Feminism Copy Share Image
Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her. — Honore de Balzac Angel Copy Share Image
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows. — Honore de Balzac Investment Copy Share Image
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“He had eaten as much as a travelling actor and drunk like the sands of the desert" Maxence Gilet” — Honoré de Balzac Drunk Copy Share Image
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. — Honore de Balzac Advantage Copy Share Image
“This costume, utterly uncouth, seemed to have been invented as a final test of grace, and to show that there was nothing… — Honoré de Balzac Fashion Copy Share Image
Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance… — Honore de Balzac Accents Copy Share Image
On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow… — Honore de Balzac Animal Copy Share Image
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac Enjoyment Copy Share Image
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by… — Honore de Balzac Career Copy Share Image
We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner… — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some… — Honore de Balzac Admiration Copy Share Image
“True love is eternal, infinite and always like itself. It's always equal and pure. Without violent demonstrations: It is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac Love Copy Share Image
Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the… — Honore de Balzac Angel Copy Share Image
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. — Honore de Balzac Action Copy Share Image
The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion… — Honore de Balzac Anxiety Copy Share Image
The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.” — Honoré de Balzac Child Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. — Honore de Balzac Absolutes Copy Share Image
Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral… — Honore De Balzac Ideas Copy Share Image
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves. — Honore de Balzac Love Copy Share Image
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Instead of inspiring the gallant attentions which other women seek, she made men dream,” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste. — Honore de Balzac Chaste Copy Share Image
The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger. — Honore de Balzac Despair Copy Share Image
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. — Honore de Balzac Chivalry Copy Share Image
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. — Honore de Balzac Husbands Copy Share Image
The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too… — Honore de Balzac Proverb Copy Share Image
Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex… — Honore de Balzac Brain Copy Share Image
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. — Honore de Balzac Belief Copy Share Image
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
