Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
HONORE DE BALZACA mother who is really a mother is never free.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
-
-
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
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.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
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 -
If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
HONORE DE BALZAC -
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
HONORE DE BALZAC