Honore De Balzac Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Fate Quotes

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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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

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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.

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Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

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

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Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

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Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

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If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

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

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