20 May: Honore de Balzac Quotes

Honore de Balzac, French novelist was born on this date in 1799. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.

1. Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
2. There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
3. Love is the poetry of the senses.
4. The more one judges, the less one loves.
5. Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
6. Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
7. It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
8. When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
9. Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
10. People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

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