Balzac Quotes

When policy fails try thinking. - Honore De Balzac

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. - Honore De Balzac

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned. - Honore De Balzac

What is art? Nature concentrated. - Honore De Balzac

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? - Honore De Balzac

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. - Honore De Balzac

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources. - Honore De Balzac

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. - Honore De Balzac

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. - Honore De Balzac