More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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.
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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 husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
