More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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.
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!
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
