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
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.
women wife world
Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
suicide moral dressings
Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.
stitches thread draws
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
soul
All we are is in the soul.
outcomes events individual
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
inspirational spurs genius
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
goes-on forget
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
god thoughtful seekers
God reveals himself unfailingly to the thoughtful seeker.
generosity poor generous
As a rule, only the poor are generous.