More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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.
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.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
The more one judges, the less one loves.
