Quotes by Honore de Balzac

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

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