Inspirational Quotes by Honore de Balzac — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“The more he saw, the more he doubted. He watched men narrowly, and saw how, beneath the surface, courage was often rashness; and prudence, cowardice; generosity, a clever piece of calculation; justice, a wrong; delicacy, pusillanimity; honesty, a modus vivendi; and by some strange dispensation of fate, he must see that those who at heart were really honest, scrupulous, just, generous, prudent or brave were held cheaply by their fellow-men.”

“Вера в себя способна творить такие же чудеса, как вера в Господа Бога.”

“Namun, tantangan dalam hidup bukanlah terletak pada panjang-pendeknya, tetapi pada kualitasnya, pada seberapa banyak kejutan heboh yang ditimbulkan.”

“Itulah mengapa negeri Timur punya teramat sedikit penulis. Orang di sana terlalu bahagia dengan kehidupan sendiri hingga tak perlu memikirkan hidup orang lain. jadi apa gunanya lagi ada kecerdasan kalau semua adalah melulu soal perasaan!”

“And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.”

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”

“Glory is the sunshine of the dead”

“Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man”

“Love is the poetry of the senses!”

“If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.”

“A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea”

“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?”

“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”

“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”