More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
The more one judges, the less one loves.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
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.
