I am not deep, but I am very wide. Honore de Balzac More Quotes by Honore de Balzac More Quotes From Honore de Balzac Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently. Honore de Balzac stupid heaven people Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen. Honore de Balzac quacks cures evil Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly. Honore de Balzac gowns balls two Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage. Honore de Balzac levels society ocean Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes. Honore de Balzac gentleman dream home Nothing about me surprises me. Honore de Balzac surprise-me surprise All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow. Honore de Balzac fate joy men Love which economizes is never true love. Honore de Balzac For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life. Honore de Balzac light dark people Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects. Honore de Balzac passion powerful wine In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is. Honore de Balzac accepting bed people True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit. Honore de Balzac dupes flattery love-is Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage. Honore de Balzac nobility gone today When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm. Honore de Balzac storm women talking Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness. Honore de Balzac money age feelings Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune. Honore de Balzac misfortunes wine No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea. Honore de Balzac latitude-and-longitude lines sea Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct? Honore de Balzac forgiving passion law Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime. Honore de Balzac sublime catholic church Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together. Honore de Balzac feelings love two
