More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.
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.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
