“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“I am not deep, but I am very wide.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“Passion is born deaf and dumb.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“I belong to the opposition party, which is called life.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
“Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.”
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
"As a rule, only the poor are generous."
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
"Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring."
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
"Cruelty and fear shake hands together."
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
"Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them."
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
"A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage."
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
"Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire"
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
"Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows."
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
"When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt."
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
"How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!"
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
"There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events."
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
"All human power is a compound of time and patience."
― Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)