More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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.
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.
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
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.
