More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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.
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.
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
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 husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
