More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
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
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.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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.