More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
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.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
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.
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.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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.
