More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
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 you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
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.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.