El error de los hombres superiores es gastar los años de su juventud en hacerse dignos de la estimación de los demás.
All is true, - so true, that every one can discern the elements of the tragedy in his own house, perhaps in his own heart.
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Became Secretary to the King's Council, at which time he changed his name to Balzac and added the particle de, both of which denoted nobility. Bernard-François's marriage to Balzac's mother, Anne Laur...
Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you to despair.
Yes,' Montriveau went on in an unsteady voice, 'this Catholic faith to which you wish to convert me is a lie that men make for themselves; hope is a lie at the expense of the future; pride, a lie betw...
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
Were it not for the cabarets, would not the Government be overturned every Tuesday? Happily, by Tuesday, this people is glutted, sleeps off its pleasure, is penniless, and returns to its labor, to dry...
Truth is less complete in its utterance; it does not put everything on the outside; it allows us to see what is within.
This costume, utterly uncouth, seemed to have been invented as a final test of grace, and to show that there was nothing too ridiculous for fashion to consecrate.
Pourquoi deux mois de prison au dandy qui, dans une nuit, ôte à un enfant la moitié de sa fortune, et pourquoi le bagne au pauvre diable qui vole un billet de mille francs avec les circonstances aggra...
Only, the working-man dies in hospital when the last term of his stunted growth expires; whereas the man of the middle class is set upon living, and lives on, but in a state of idiocy. You
Mankind are not perfect, but one age is more or less hypocritical than another, and then simpletons say that its morality is high or low.
La verdadera pasión se expresa con gritos, con suspiros fastidiosos para el hombre frío.
La flatterie n'émane jamais des grandes âmes, elle est l'apanage des petits esprits qui réussissent à se rapetisser encore pour mieux entrer dans la sphère vitale de la personne autour de laquelle ils...
La avaricia, como el amor, posee el don de la visión de los acontecimientos futuros, que presiente y adivina.
Instead of inspiring the gallant attentions which other women seek, she made men dream,
In looking forward to what remains to be done, my readers will perhaps echo what my publishers say, Please God to spare you! I only ask to be less tormented by men and things than I have hitherto been...