Honore de Balzac Quotes

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• It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Motivational, Helping Others

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• When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

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  Life, Giving, Doubt

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• How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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  Envy, Emotion, Insult

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• Behind every fortune there is a crime.

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  Crime, Fortune, Behinds

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• The more one judges, the less one loves.

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  Love, Inspiring, Positivity

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

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  Happiness, Sacrifice, Self Sacrifice

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.109, 谷月社

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• There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

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  Truth, Real, War

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• Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

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  Lying, Worry, Anticipation

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• Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

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  Hate, Hatred, Soul

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• Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

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  Mind, Great Minds, Virtue

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• Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

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  Ignorance, Moments, Moments Of Happiness

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• Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

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  Memories, Forget, Capacity

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

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  Things In Life, Choices, Hardest

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• When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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  Love, Sisterhood, Giving

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

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  Parent, Victory, Defeat

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• All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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  Time, Power, Compounds

  Honore de Balzac (2009). “Eugenie Grandet”, p.141, The Floating Press

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

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in
  the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman
  dancing.

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  Beautiful, Horse, Sight

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• Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

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  Equality, Power, Literature

  "La Duchesse de Langeais". Essay by Honore de Balzac (1834), published in "Oeuvres completes de H. de Balzac" ("Complete works of Balzac") published by A. Houssiaux (Part II, pp. 111-235), translated by Ellen Marriage, 1855.

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

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  Inspirational, Willpower, Talent

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

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  Being Yourself, Work, Love Yourself

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Men, Law

  "New Outlook, Volume 58". Book edited by Alfred Emanuel Smith, Outlook Publishing Company, Inc. (p. 272), 1898.

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• Reading brings us unknown friends

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  Book, Reading

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Elixir of Life”, p.6, The Floating Press

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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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  People, Gossip, Would Be

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

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  Strong, Creative, Secret

  Honoré de Balzac (2007). “Cesar Birotteau and Gaudissart the Great”, p.317, Wildside Press LLC

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