More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
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.
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.
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.