Honore de Balzac

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#deeply #look #love #many #men

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#bend #bent #destiny #everything #having

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#brothers #kin #kings #most #mother

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#demands #fate #gifts #heavy #itself

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#action #discussion #electoral #established #permanently

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#equality #exercise #give #great #great souls

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#enigmas #hard #intrigue #look #maze

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#need #solitude #someone #tell #you

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#kind #lends #our #study #surroundings

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#life #more #moreover #mystery #paris