Political liberty, the tranquility of a nation, nay, knowledge itself, are gifts on which destiny has laid a tax of blood!
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Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
The virtue of women is perhaps a question of temperament.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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The winters are to fashionable women what a campaign once was to the soldiers of the Empire.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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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.
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
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Old maids who have never yielded in their habits of life or in their characters to other lives and other characters, as the fate of woman exacts, have, as a general thing, a mania for making others give way to them.
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The next day Rastignac dressed himself very elegantly, and about three o'clock in the afternoon went to call on Mme. De Restaud. On the way thither he indulged in the wild intoxicating dreams which fill a young head so full of delicious excitement. Young men at his age take no account of obstacles nor of dangers; they see success in every direction; imagination has free play, and turns their lives into a romance; they are saddened or discouraged by the collapse of one of the visionary schemes that have no existence save in their heated fancy. If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
The more a man judges, the less he loves.
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