I am not deep, but I am very wide. Honore de Balzac More Quotes by Honore de Balzac More Quotes From Honore de Balzac Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion? Honore de Balzac law men thinking All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds? Honore de Balzac silence spiritual heaven Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from. Honore de Balzac rocks kindness hands If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance. Honore de Balzac enchantment nature giving People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply. Honore de Balzac climbs society people The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool. Honore de Balzac odes husband love The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted. Honore de Balzac girl heart love We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing. Honore de Balzac pleasure solitude answers The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again. Honore de Balzac tyranny love No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love. Honore de Balzac yield natural love Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge. Honore de Balzac poetic women dresses Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space. Honore de Balzac wells space soul Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts. Honore de Balzac angel heart looks Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power. Honore de Balzac women stronger feelings We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day. Honore de Balzac wish success Like evil, sublimity is also contagious. Honore de Balzac sublimity contagious evil Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure. Honore de Balzac gratitude love-is love Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences. Honore de Balzac stupidity feelings men Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth. Honore de Balzac earth sun love Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future. Honore de Balzac passion love past
