More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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.
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
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.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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.
