Honoré de Balzac quote: "The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred."

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better,...
HONORé DE BALZAC

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the o...
HONORé DE BALZAC

All happiness depends on courage and work.
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The more one judges, the less one loves.
HONORé DE BALZAC

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime
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Hemen hepimiz her sabah, yüreğimiz aşka susamış, içimiz içimize sığmayarak yola çıkarız....
HONORé DE BALZAC

Reading brings us unknown friends
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Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of t...
HONORé DE BALZAC

[...]O que está faltando? Um nada, mas um nada que é tudo. Vocês têm a aparência da vida mas n�...
HONORé DE BALZAC

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
HONORé DE BALZAC

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
HONORé DE BALZAC

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secre...
HONORé DE BALZAC

Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.
HONORé DE BALZAC

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influe...
HONORé DE BALZAC

-Хүү минь, чи надад ямар ч өргүй гэж бодож явах эрхийг б�...
HONORé DE BALZAC

No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to l...
HONORé DE BALZAC

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cu...
HONORé DE BALZAC

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely s...
HONORé DE BALZAC

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
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A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the ...
HONORé DE BALZAC

For avarice begins where poverty ends.
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In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tai...
HONORé DE BALZAC

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the ...
HONORé DE BALZAC

Борьба имеет свою прелесть. Бороться - значит жить, пус�...
HONORé DE BALZAC

Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren't we suffoc...
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You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch...
HONORé DE BALZAC

The rout, that dreary review of fashionable fineries, that parade of well-dressed self-infatuations,...
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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
HONORé DE BALZAC

To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-f...
HONORé DE BALZAC

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
HONORé DE BALZAC

La Société ne fait-elle pas de l'homme, suivant les milieux où son action se déploie, autant d'h...
HONORé DE BALZAC

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
HONORé DE BALZAC

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORé DE BALZAC

Es fehlt uns eben leider nie an Geld für unsere Launen. Wir markten nur um den Preis für nützlich...
HONORé DE BALZAC

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublim...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
HONORE DE BALZAC

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is ...
HONORE DE BALZAC

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously bl...
HONORE DE BALZAC

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
HONORE DE BALZAC

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witt...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the o...
HONORE DE BALZAC

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
HONORE DE BALZAC

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.
HONORE DE BALZAC

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that m...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
HONORE DE BALZAC

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
HONORE DE BALZAC

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take ...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Anybody who would like to travel as an archaeologist of mores and observe men instead of rocks could...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism a...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
HONORE DE BALZAC

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
HONORE DE BALZAC

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
HONORE DE BALZAC

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

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so su...
HONORE DE BALZAC

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that ...
HONORE DE BALZAC

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Modesty is the conscience of the body.
HONORE DE BALZAC

A mother who is really a mother is never free.
HONORE DE BALZAC

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext ...
HONORE DE BALZAC

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
HONORE DE BALZAC

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

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people eve...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Coffee falls into the stomach ... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop ... t...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
HONORE DE BALZAC

The man who can but sketch his purpose beforehand in words is regarded as a wonder, and every artist...
HONORE DE BALZAC

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

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yours...
HONORE DE BALZAC

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been ...
HONORE DE BALZAC

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gon...
HONORE DE BALZAC

God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have b...
HONORE DE BALZAC

What is art? Nature concentrated.
HONORE DE BALZAC

It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the dishe...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Love is a game in which one always cheats.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Cruelty and fear shake hands together
HONORE DE BALZAC

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
HONORE DE BALZAC

The more one judges, the less one loves.
HONORE DE BALZAC

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over...
HONORE DE BALZAC

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONORE DE BALZAC

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds ...
HONORE DE BALZAC

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
HONORE DE BALZAC

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZAC

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life ...
HONORE DE BALZAC

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
HONORE DE BALZAC

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demons...
HONORE DE BALZAC

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Finance, like time, devours its own children.
HONORE DE BALZAC

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
HONORE DE BALZAC

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
HONORE DE BALZAC

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in ...
HONORE DE BALZAC

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they ...
HONORE DE BALZAC

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportio...
HONORE DE BALZAC

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. N...
HONORE DE BALZAC

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cu...
HONORE DE BALZAC

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
HONORE DE BALZAC

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
HONORE DE BALZAC

No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.
HONORE DE BALZAC

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that ...
HONORE DE BALZAC

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
HONORE DE BALZAC

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
HONORE DE BALZAC

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
HONORE DE BALZAC

This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions...
HONORE DE BALZAC

All human power is a compound of time and patience.
HONORE DE BALZAC

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals that is what...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishi...
HONORE DE BALZAC

If we all said people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
HONORE DE BALZAC

I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal o...
HONORE DE BALZAC

With monuments as with men, position means everything.
HONORE DE BALZAC

It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral id...
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Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if...
HONORE DE BALZAC

One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.
HONORE DE BALZAC

And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world
HONORE DE BALZAC

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take ...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
HONORE DE BALZAC

A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism
HONORE DE BALZAC

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.
HONORE DE BALZAC

To loaf is a science, to loaf is to live
HONORE DE BALZAC

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness w...
HONORE DE BALZAC

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
HONORE DE BALZAC

He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single son...
HONORE DE BALZAC

A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the sam...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Genius is intensity
HONORE DE BALZAC

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent
HONORE DE BALZAC

All happiness depends on courage and work
HONORE DE BALZAC

Economized love is never real love
HONORE DE BALZAC

Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
HONORE DE BALZAC

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the ...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position
HONORE DE BALZAC

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is n...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
HONORE DE BALZAC

They must have the defects of their qualities.
HONORE DE BALZAC

In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a wom...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
HONORE DE BALZAC

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soa...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman&...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give...
HONORE DE BALZAC

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief
HONORE DE BALZAC

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself
HONORE DE BALZAC

They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding...
HONORE DE BALZAC

To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer
HONORE DE BALZAC

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
HONORE DE BALZAC

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness
HONORE DE BALZAC

Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts
HONORE DE BALZAC

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devo...
HONORE DE BALZAC

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
HONORE DE BALZAC

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZAC

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

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it...
HONORE DE BALZAC

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
HONORE DE BALZAC

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's inf...
HONORE DE BALZAC

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violi...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exis...
HONORE DE BALZAC

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Man is young as long as he can repeat his emotions; woman, as long as she can inspire them
HONORE DE BALZAC

Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.
HONORé DAUMIER

Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONOR&EACUTE; DE BALZAC

Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD

The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND

Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU

There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD

We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

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The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

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