When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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

By: Honore de Balzac



Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love... view

By: Honore de Balzac



The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin... view

By: Honore de Balzac



The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition... view

By: Honore de Balzac



Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it... view

By: Honore de Balzac



No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman... view

By: Honore de Balzac



It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action... view

By: Honore de Balzac



Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God... view

By: Honore de Balzac



To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought... view

By: Honore de Balzac



Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation... view

By: Honore de Balzac



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



Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin... view

By: Honore de Balzac

