Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac
Honoré de Balzacbal.zak], born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 May 1799
CountryFrance
literature spirit apprehension
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
men despair literature
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
clouds veils shrouds
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
selfishness courtesy veneer
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
mother pardon
Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.
desire vices desire-to-learn
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
peace heart men
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
women men
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
hate men hatred
The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
struggle pride men
Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
money children finance
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
coffee army ideas
When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army
kings home feelings
The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.
sympathy pain bears
There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.