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More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
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!
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.
