There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. — Honore de Balzac Great power Copy Share Image
To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts. — Honore de Balzac Anger Copy Share Image
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire. — Honore de Balzac Desire Copy Share Image
Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives. — Honore de Balzac Creative Copy Share Image
Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness. — Honore de Balzac Age Copy Share Image
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. — Honore de Balzac Immensity Copy Share Image
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. — Honore de Balzac Argument Copy Share Image
Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief. — Honore de Balzac Anxious Copy Share Image
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such… — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing… — Honore de Balzac Care Copy Share Image
In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased… — Honore de Balzac Boudoir Copy Share Image
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law.… — Honore de Balzac Attorney Copy Share Image
A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and… — Honore de Balzac Enemies Copy Share Image
Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an… — Honore de Balzac Advantage Copy Share Image
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup… — Honoré de Balzac Humor Copy Share Image
“To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and… — Honoré de Balzac Aristocratic Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Civilization Copy Share Image
This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between… — Honore de Balzac Animal Copy Share Image
“No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love… — Honoré de Balzac Emotion Copy Share Image
“took place toward the end of the month of July, 1815. The second return of the Bourbons had shaken many friendships which… — Honoré de Balzac Family Copy Share Image
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