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
suffering doubt doe
A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?
son men mistress
Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.
men despair sauntering
The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
occupation twins born
A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
spirit vivacity
Vivacity is the health of the spirit.
half virtue
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
husband government faults
Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.
feelings ignorant pieces
Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.
clouds veils
Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
struggle men long
We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.
real splendor
The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
betrayal eye men
A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.
art philosophy history
There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
men stupidity feelings
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.