What did Honoré de Balzac mean by: Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad. Honoré de Balzac Writer · France Copy
Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.’ Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Communication, Connection, Significance, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Communication, Marriage, Romance, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Civilization, Ignorance, Timidity, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Commitment, Devotion, Responsibility, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Genius, Legacy, Present, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Duty, Emotion, Religion, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Routine, Struggle, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Hope, Love, Nature, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
In art, theories are as useful as a doctor’s prescription; one must be sick to believe them. Maurice de Vlaminck Painter · France
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. Jean Rostand Biologist · France
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. Jean-Francois Lyotard
