More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
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.
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.
