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
ugly sin ugliness
Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.
pounds timidity
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
secret unhappy treasure
Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.
mother children thoughtful
How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.
character thermometers temperament
Temperament is the thermometer of character.
women two suffering
To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?
success wish
We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.
evil contagious sublimity
Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.
two stupidity assuming
Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.
care cost longing
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.
dream inspire misfortunes
Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
atheism thanks century
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
strong queens prayer
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.
pride men causes
Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.