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
kindness hands rocks
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
love unions want
The union of a want and a sentiment.
jealousy husband wife
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
happiness soul doe
But does not happiness come from the soul within?
law bigs
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
writing tables my-thoughts
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.
memories desire enjoyed
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
country government france
France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.
passion disorder
But woman brings disorder into society through passion.
doe martyr great-writers
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
solitude labor
Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.
two people sublime
Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.
mean men law
Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.
mind great-minds virtue
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.