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More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
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.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
