More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
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.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
