More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
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 woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
