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

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Care Greatness Heart Man Mistake Tranquility
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Equality Forever Love Pure True
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
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Heart Money Treasure Yourself
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Dance Quite Right Woman
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Man Physical Time Woman
We love because we love.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Love One Liner
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Awake Goodness Husband Morning Sleep
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Double Feeling Friendship Love Myself
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Control Giant Operation
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Attack Fall People Religion Rich Royal
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
HONORE DE BALZAC

Destroy Insult Jealous Natural Possession
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Death Expectation Man True
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Believe Immortal Marriage Oneself Soul
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Catch Law Oneself Pass Small
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Excellence Family Generosity Money Poor Reasons Relative Rich Rule

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