“There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. The superior man espouses events and circumstances in order to guide them. If there were principles and fixed laws, nations would not change them as we change our shirts and a man can not be expected to be wiser than an entire nation.”
“There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. The superior man espouses events and circumstances in order to guide them. If there were principles and fixed laws, nations would not change them as we change our shirts and a man can not be expected to be wiser than an entire nation.”
Honoré de Balzac
“She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.”
Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress“What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.”
Gustave Flaubert“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.”
Honore de Balzac“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”
Honore de Balzac“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.”
Honore de Balzac“Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.”
Honore de Balzac“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment. ”
Honore de Balzac“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.”
Honore de Balzac“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”
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