More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
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.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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.
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
