836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.