56 Quotations by Honore De Balzac
- 1. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
- 2. A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way ...
- 3. A mother who is really a mother is never free.
- 4. A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live ...
- 5. A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
- 6. A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
- 7. All happiness depends on courage and work.
- 8. All human power is a compound of time and patience.
- 9. All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- 10. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
- 11. Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
- 12. Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
- 13. Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
- 14. Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
- 15. Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
- 16. Finance, like time, devours its own children.
- 17. First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
- 18. Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext ...
- 19. Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
- 20. I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
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