Reading brings us unknown friends Honore de Balzac More Quotes by Honore de Balzac More Quotes From Honore de Balzac The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare. Honore de Balzac taste soul joy A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her. Honore de Balzac wife husband lovers Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. Honore de Balzac political color writing Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity. Honore de Balzac eccentricity A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love. Honore de Balzac faithful echoes voice The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes. Honore de Balzac deceiving nature doe No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect. Honore de Balzac pity society victim Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues. Honore de Balzac misfortunes force virtue When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. Honore de Balzac vices literature law Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other. Honore de Balzac friendship negative thinking Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. Honore de Balzac ruins literature house Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. Honore de Balzac pain suffering men The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money. Honore de Balzac deals giving A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart. Honore de Balzac pride heart men The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things. Honore de Balzac karma spiritual memories To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh. Honore de Balzac strong creative past It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. Honore de Balzac wickedness overcoming lying [Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject. Honore de Balzac communication inspiration past Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird. Honore de Balzac males break-out bird Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy. Honore de Balzac government power beauty
