Quotes from Honore de Balzac

It is very humiliating to ask," remarked Philippe; "I would rather see you taking as I do, without a word; it shows more confidence. In the army, if a comrade dies, and has a good pair of boots, and you have a bad pair, you change, that's all." "Yes, but you don't take them while he is living.

they should have seen that every institution has its climacteric periods, when words lose their old meanings, and ideas reappear in a new guise, and the whole conditions of politics wear a changed aspect, while the underlying realities undergo no essential alteration.

A newspaper is not supposed to enlighten its readers, but to supply them with congenial opinions. Give any newspaper time enough, and it will be base, hypocritical, shameless, and treacherous; the periodical press will be the death of ideas, systems, and individuals; nay, it will flourish upon their decay. It will take the credit of all creations of the brain; the harm that it does is done anonymously

Whenever the press makes vehement onslaughts upon some one in power, you may be sure that there is some refusal to do a service behind it. Blackmailing with regard to private life is the terror of the richest Englishman, and a great source of wealth to the press in England, which is infinitely more corrupt than ours. We are children in comparison! In England they will pay five or six thousand francs for a compromising letter to sell again.

Peki ama beni kimi vakit mutlulu?un göbe?inde yakalay?veren o uzun uzun hulyalara dalmalardan ku?kulanmak niye? Bir konu üzerinde benim susu?umdan dolay? senin pek sevimli, sevilen kad?n öfken niye? Yarad?l???mdaki z?tl?klarla, nedenlerini sormadan, oynayamaz m?yd?n? Kalbinde birtak?m s?rlar m? var ki, kendilerini kapatmak için benim s?rlar?ma ihtiyaç duyuyorlar?

Society acts like an ocean: after some great accident, it regains it's flat surface, it's usual flow, and erases it's trace of agitation of it's unsatisfied interests.

Talent in men is therefore, in all moral points, very much what beauty is in women, — simply a promise. Let us, therefore, doubly admire the man in whom both heart and character equal the perfection of his genius.

E la donna è così felice e così bella nelle ore in cui è forte, che preferisce a tutti gli uomini quello che ha una forza enorme, a costo d'essere spezzata da lui.

History is, or ought to be, what it was; while romance ought to be "the better world," as was said by Mme. Necker, one of the most distinguished thinkers of the last century.

And a good many bourgeois marriages have had their beginning to the sound of the band occupying the centre of this circular ballroom. If that roof could speak, what love-stories could it not tell!

Il vient une heure merveilleuse où le soleil chauffe l'âme de ses rayons, où elles sourient à la lumière" ???? ???? ????? ???? ???? ????? ??????? ????? ?????? ???? ?????

Noble natures cannot dwell in this world,

The chevalier had long since fathomed the nature of Athanase, and recognized in it that unyielding element of republican convictions to which in his youth a young man is willing to sacrifice everything, carried away by the word "liberty," so ill-defined and so little understood, but which to persons disdained by fate is a banner of revolt; and to such, revolt is vengeance.

Is it not necessary, in order to produce the slightest change, that the most daring dreams of the past century become the most trite ideas of the present one?

Manche Menschen sind wie Nullen, sie brauchen eine Zahl, die vor ihnen steht, und ihr Nichts erlangt dann zehnfachen Wert.

Femeile pot iubi fara a fi fericite si pot fi fericite fara a iubi. A iubi si a fi fericita, a intruni aceste doua mari bucurii omenesti - asta seamana a Minune.

Tous vos défauts, vos terreurs, vos petitesses ajoutent je ne sais quelle grâce á votre âme.

THERE IS A general cry of paradox when scholars, struck by some historical error, attempt to correct it; but, for whoever studies modern history to its depths, it is plain that historians are privileged liars, who lend their pen to popular beliefs precisely as the newspapers of the day, or most of them, express the opinions of their readers.

You are like the peasant," said Sallenauve, laughing, "who, expecting the end of the world, did not sow his wheat.

Huele a encerrado, a moho, a rancio; produce frío, es húmeda, penetra los vestidos; posee el sabor de una habitación en la que se ha comido; apesta a servicio, a hospicio.

Se mai uitase o dat? la poetul r?pus de pl?ceri, se îmb?tase f?r? s? se sature de iubirea cea nobil?, care unea sim?urile cu inima ?i inima cu sim?urile, ca s? le ridice în înaltul cerului împreun?. Divinizarea aceasta, care face s? fim doi pe p?mânt ca s? sim?im, ?i unul singur în cer ca s? iubim, însemna pentru dânsa iertarea p?catelor.

Art can go no further than this. Art has risen above Nature, since Nature only gives her creatures a few brief years of life.

About a league out of Pouilly the coach was overturned. My luckless comrade, thinking to save himself, jumped to the edge of a newly-ploughed field, instead of following the fortunes of the vehicle and clinging tightly to the roof, as I did. He either miscalculated in some way, or he slipped; how it happened, I do not know, but the coach fell over upon him, and he was crushed under it.

Timpul este singurul capital al oamenilor care n-au alt? avere decât inteligen?a.