Honoré de Balzac Quotes
But does not happiness come from the soul within?
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?
The more a man judges, the less he loves.
Behind every great fortune there is a great crime.
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
A child is tied to our heart-strings.
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser’s gains are ours without his cares.
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Death unites as well as separates.
Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
A marriage is a fight to the death.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.
What is art.. but nature concentrated?
All happiness depends on courage and work.
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.
Thinking is seeing... all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate.
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.