What did Honoré de Balzac mean by: Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind. Honoré de Balzac Writer · France Copy
Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Commitment, Routine, Struggle, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Contradiction, Identity, Virtue, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Resignation, Unfortunate, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Altruism, Empathy, Joy, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Love, Spirituality, Wisdom, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Creativity, Overwhelming, Perspective, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
They ended as all great passions do end – by a misunderstanding. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Conclusion, Misunderstanding, Passion, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist’s imagination. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Faith, Imagination, Love, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately ‘create the future of mankind’ Friedrich August von Hayek Economist · Austria
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. Mary Renault Author · United Kingdom
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. Mary Wortley Montagu Writer · England
I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless. Massimo Vignelli Graphic designer · Italy