I am not deep, but I am very wide. Honore de Balzac More Quotes by Honore de Balzac More Quotes From Honore de Balzac We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose. Honore de Balzac law rose book The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness. Honore de Balzac secret lying art Love knows nothing of modesty. Honore de Balzac modesty knows love Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling. Honore de Balzac events christian men Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory. Honore de Balzac peculiar mind memories On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts. Honore de Balzac true-friend friends dog The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold? Honore de Balzac criminals pride heart Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes. Honore de Balzac starlight virgins eye What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible. Honore de Balzac virtue impossible Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves. Honore de Balzac charity energy Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera. Honore de Balzac charity virtue heart There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step. Honore de Balzac skeletons book thinking One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard. Honore de Balzac july men book Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it. Honore de Balzac done doe men No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival. Honore de Balzac rivals inferiority heart When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle. Honore de Balzac palaces niece uncles Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise. Honore de Balzac honest praise said In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot. Honore de Balzac remedy injury france Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has! Honore de Balzac thieves style writing A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her. Honore de Balzac mother loss hands
