Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest. Honore de Balzac More Quotes by Honore de Balzac More Quotes From Honore de Balzac Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it. Honore de Balzac keyboardswomenstudy Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally. Honore de Balzac despotismlibertytrouble Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. Honore de Balzac treasurywealthheart A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination. Honore de Balzac novelistsimaginationlove-is Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word. Honore de Balzac scoundrelsbreaklovers Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed. Honore de Balzac enjoyeddesirememories Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion. Honore de Balzac criminalscompassionlittles Clouds signify the veil of the Most High. Honore de Balzac veilsclouds Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man. Honore de Balzac womenwifeworld With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite. Honore de Balzac punishmentsoulexpectations No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife. Honore de Balzac wifegivingmen For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed. Honore de Balzac sickfeetmen Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found. Honore de Balzac angelspiritualscience Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right. Honore de Balzac like-lovehatehatred Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist. Honore de Balzac brainjusticeideas Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch. Honore de Balzac reallyingart To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold. Honore de Balzac moneygoldadd According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on. Honore de Balzac seasheepmen Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love. Honore de Balzac soulsealove A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion. Honore de Balzac atheismatheist
