More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
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.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
