More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
