Quotes from Honoré de Balzac

“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”

Honore de Balzac

“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”

Honore de Balzac

“The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.”

Honore de Balzac

“To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.”

Honore de Balzac

“Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance”

Honore de Balzac

“To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals — that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.”

Honore de Balzac

“The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.”

Honore de Balzac

“He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.”

Honore de Balzac

“Those who spend too fast never grow rich.”

Honore de Balzac

“Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to…