Honore De Balzac Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes

When women love, they forgive everything...

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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

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The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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I am not deep, but I am very wide.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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Passion is born deaf and dumb.

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Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?

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Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?

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Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

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Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

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One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

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