More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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.
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.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
