More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
The more one judges, the less one loves.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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.
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
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.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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.