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
joy soul taste
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.
hate hatred soul
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
soul literature habit
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
soul sensuality
Sensuality is the death of the soul.
voice soul desert
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.
space soul wells
Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.
soul virtue lofty
Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
punishment expectations soul
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.
love sea soul
Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.
soul sorrow slumber
Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.
happiness soul doe
But does not happiness come from the soul within?
soul
All we are is in the soul.
soul virtue politeness
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
art history humanity religion
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.