Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues. — Honore de Balzac Character Copy Share Image
Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious. — Honore de Balzac Admiration Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man. — Honore de Balzac Dictionary Copy Share Image
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. — Honore de Balzac Apprehension Copy Share Image
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac Forgiveness Copy Share Image
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken… — Honore de Balzac Caprice Copy Share Image
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does. — Honore de Balzac Body Copy Share Image
“Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself… — Honore de Balzac Balzac Copy Share Image
“N'y a-t-il pas des pensées, des actions qui, en amour, équivalent, pour certaines âmes, à de saintes fiancailles!” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain. — Honore de Balzac Disdain Copy Share Image
The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“So often it happens that this one or that stands condemned by the social laws that govern family relations; and yet there… — Honoré de Balzac Family Copy Share Image
“She is right,” said the baroness. “We are sent into the world to marry.” “Do you encourage her in disobedience?” said the… — Honoré de Balzac Marriage Copy Share Image
“She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling… — Honoré de Balzac Lily Copy Share Image
Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in… — Honore de Balzac Angel Copy Share Image
Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. — Honore de Balzac Art Copy Share Image
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity. — Honore de Balzac Feminism Copy Share Image
Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise. — Honore de Balzac Honest Copy Share Image
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding. — Honore de Balzac Beginning Copy Share Image
A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion. — Honore de Balzac Atheism Copy Share Image
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. — Honore de Balzac Animals Copy Share Image
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. — Honore de Balzac Education Copy Share Image
