We cannot confront solitude without moral resources. Honore de Balzac More Quotes by Honore de Balzac More Quotes From Honore de Balzac Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another. Honore de Balzac madness twins religious The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness. Honore de Balzac hazards passion couple Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. Honore de Balzac husband player lying Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life. Honore de Balzac mother doe world It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. Honore de Balzac marriage love life The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics. Honore de Balzac bad-ass badass events Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. Honore de Balzac demand should firsts Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. Honore de Balzac power leadership sports A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. Honore de Balzac duplicity fake-people flow For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy? Honore de Balzac shadow pain world Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses. Honore de Balzac glory poison taken I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. Honore de Balzac finance race literature The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn. Honore de Balzac flower summer spring This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder. Honore de Balzac struggle fall moving The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred Honore de Balzac impossible inspirational facts It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one. Honore de Balzac dream writing book As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative. Honore de Balzac generosity twenties people You may imitate, but never counterfeit. Honore de Balzac counterfeit imitation may Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.' Honore de Balzac moments sometimes looks 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
