What did Honoré de Balzac mean by: Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not. Honoré de Balzac Writer · France Copy
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
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Influence, Interpretation, Subjectivity, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
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
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Separation, Silence, Unity, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Love, Morality, Nature, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
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
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Misfortune, Social, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Honoré de Balzac, Confidence, Courage, Relationships, 0 Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it. Read explanation Jennifer Stone Actress · USA
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
