Honoré de Balzac Quotes

An essential effect of elegance is to conceal its means.

Resignation is a daily suicide.

Art is born in the brain, not in the heart.

The love is not only a feeling. It is also an art.

There is no man who has been able to discover the means of giving friendly advice to a woman, not even to his own.

Ignorance is the mother of all crimes.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

All power is a permanent conspiracy.

Glory is a poison that must be taken in small doses.

There are several memories within us. The body and the spirit each have their own.

It is necessary to be almost a genius to be a good husband.

Modesty is a relative virtue, depending on whether one is twenty, thirty, or forty-five years old.