What did Honoré de Balzac mean by: Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else. Honoré de Balzac Writer · France Copy
The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Accountability, Spending, Transparency, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Self-love, Wounds, 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
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Complexity, Intrigue, Mystery, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Art, Imagination, Perception, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Emotions, Self-control, Wisdom, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Overcome, Sin, Temptation, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Exaggeration, Nobility, Youth, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. William Morris Designer · England
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
