Honore De Balzac Quotes, Fate Quotes, Men Quotes

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

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Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

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To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

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Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

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The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

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To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

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We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

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