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More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
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.
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
