Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

The more one judges, the less one loves... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second.. view

By: Honore de Balzac

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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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Finance, like time, devours its own children... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?.. view

By: Honore de Balzac

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Modesty is the conscience of the body... view

By: Honore de Balzac

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