Honore De Balzac, (1799-1850), French Novelist Quotes

Love is to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring and youth -- the former from the year, the latter from human life.

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is a genuine pleasure.

Society, like the Roman youth at the circus, never shows mercy to the fallen gladiator.