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
selfishness courtesy veneer
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
happiness sacrifice self-sacrifice
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
men self doe
When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.
self feelings hierarchy
Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.
mother love-is self
Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.
self resignation unfortunate
By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.
self self-love turns
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.
love self-love
Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.
love selfish passion
The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
art motherhood self
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
art history humanity religion
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
inspirational men law
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
suicide wall writing
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.
simplicity inspire disrespect
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.