What did Honoré de Balzac mean by: It’s catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers. Honoré de Balzac Writer · France Copy
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Desire, Hope, Memory, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Criticism, Politics, Responsibility, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Experience, Protection, Relationships, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Pity, Society, Victim, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Integrity, Morality, Virtue, 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
Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Compassion, Curiosity, Terror, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Animalistic, Gluttony, Humanity, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
