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
beautiful strong powerful
Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.
falling-in-love heart feelings
But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.
beautiful book victory
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.
men suffering rivals
Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.
faults repentance force
Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.
art love-is feelings
L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.
monsters habit combat
Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.
lying law names
Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?
spirit rebellious rebellion
The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.
powerful sin repentance
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
people unhappiness unfortunate
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
temptation cures
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
couple fighting blessing
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.
women advice chivalry
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one.