78 result(s) for Honore De Balzac Quotes.
"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."
"At the beginning of love, the lovers speak of the possible, and at the end, of the impossible."
"To kill someone is to end his life, not his suffering."
"Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."
"Desire is both a creative and destructive energy."
"The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."
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"I love age, think, sleep and eat age."
"If we want to leave the world and its limitations, we must leave time."
"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."
"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn’t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."
"All happiness depends on courage and work."
"A good husband is healthy and absent."
"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman."
"The greatest glory comes from daring to begin."
"Realism is perhaps the best way to love a woman."
"To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man."
"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence."
"The errors of women spring from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true."
"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."
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"The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the crystal."
"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power."
"All humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."
"Woman is such a complex being that one can never be sure of having won her, much less of keeping her."
"The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed."
"I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact."
"Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better."
"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."
"The best way to keep a woman is to make other women look silly."
"Behind each fortune lies a crime."
"The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow."
"You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome."
"The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know."
"The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband."
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"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."
"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."
"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."
"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."
"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."
"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."
"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."
"The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself."
"The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste."
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
"The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done."
"The unfaithful woman is forsaken both by the heart and by talent."
"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin."
"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."
"Passion is universal humanity. Without it, religion, history, romance, art would be useless."
"The majority of writers keep what they know on a short rein."
"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."
"The faults of women come from the virtues of men."
"The heart of a woman is not an abyss, but a volcano, filled with embers."
"The more one judges, the less one loves."
"Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine."
"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
"Love is a game in which one always cheats."
"To succeed in the world, we must look foolish but be wise."
"Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into a fact."
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
"The secret of great deeds is great endurance."
"Great love makes us capable of great sacrifices."
"To have money is to be virtuous."
"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."
"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."
"The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it."
"Hatred is the vice of narrow souls."
"The heart of a friend is a magnet that attracts love."
"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."
"There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice."
"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."
"If we told or showed you anything, you would take it as a lie, or fake."
"Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society."
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