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
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.
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.
like-love hatred trifles
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.
men feet sick
For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.
liberty trouble despotism
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
love love-is
We love because we love.
pride men may
A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.
philosophical men political
Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.