More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
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.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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.
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.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
