black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Honore de Balzac

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Food Hate Love Right Wrong
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Divine Introduction Life Mom Poverty World Youth
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Complete Feeling Goodness Help Inferior
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Desire Knowledge Learning Vice
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Hard Power Reveal Strike True
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Desire Enjoyment Hope Memory
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Confront Moral Resource Solitude
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Discover Friendship Himself Man Way Wife
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Change Conduct Himself Man Opinion Wasted Time
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Appetite Hungry Love Man Necessary Sex
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Believe Force Husband Let Go Lying Media Public Yourself
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Admire Book Cover Dress Elegant Rich
Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Account Estimate Form Man Opinion Wife World
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Affection Hate Heart Human Rare Slope
One hour of love has a whole life in it.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Life Love Ourselves Time
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Crime Forget Fortune Reason Secret

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Honore de Balzac Quotes