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More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
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.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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.
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.
