Honore de Balzac Quotes
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!
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On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.
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Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.
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The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.
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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
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Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
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Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.
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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
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Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.
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Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.
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Economized love is never real love.
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The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.
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Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.
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All happiness depends on courage and work.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.
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When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.