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
men reign mischief
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
pain men suffering
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
strong past creative
To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.
spiritual memories links
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.
love two sorrow
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
spiritual angel science
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.
men judging feelings
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.
strong creative secret
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
country paris trying
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
dream book writing
It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
art passion romance
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
love valentines-day valentines-day
Love is the poetry of the senses.
art motherhood self
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
inspirational facts impossible
The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred