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
liberty libertarian giants
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
angel men compassion
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
teacher looks lessons
A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
true-love love-is what-is-love
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, ...
fear hands together
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
dupes emotion victim
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
inspirational willpower talent
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
life giving doubt
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
love inspiring positivity
The more one judges, the less one loves.
men trying want-him
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
destiny maids bent
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
inspirational motivational helping-others
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.