More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
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.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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.
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.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
