More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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.
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.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
