More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
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.
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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.
