Honore de Balzac's Quotes

Honore de Balzac's Quotes 112

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected...

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that...

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always...

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls...

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into...

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one...

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art...

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything:...

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises...

A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower...

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is...

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the...

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze...

Suicide moreover was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key...

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Women are tenacious and all of them should be tenacious of respect without...

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often but by striking true.

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is...

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