Honore de Balzac Quote

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.

You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance

Capture your youth, while you can.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

الموسيقى بالنسبة لفرانز هي الفن الأكثر قرباً من الجمال الديونيسي الذي يقدّس النشوة. يمكن لرواية أو للوحة أن تدوّخنا ولكن بصعوبة. أما مع السمفونية التاسعة لبيتهوڤن، أو مع السوناتة المؤلفة من آلتيْ بيان...

Until you develop the courage to pursue that dream in your heart, you will never reach your true potential.

Love feeds on deception.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.