Honore De Balzac Quotes

Biography: Honoré de Balzac is known for his extensive series of novels and stor... more Biography: Honoré de Balzac is known for his extensive series of novels and stories collectively titled "La Comédie Humaine." Born on May 20, 1799, in Tours, France, Balzac's work offers a detailed and critical panorama of French society in the first half of the 19th century. His complex characters and keen observations have made him a pivotal figure in European literature. less

"The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done""Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true""A mother who is really a mother is never free""The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all but love only one""It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action""There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower""The more one judges, the less one loves""The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness""Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine""True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself""Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact""An unfinished life is now a tragic experience""Our worst misfortunes never happen and most miseries lie in anticipation""A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea""All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual""The man as he converses is the lover; silent he is the husband""Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"

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