More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
