836 Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

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

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

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.