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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.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Christian
Men
Events
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.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Love
Sisterhood
Giving
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Equality
Power
Literature
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Time
Power
Compounds
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Husband
Wife
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
People
Gossip
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Inspirational
Wisdom
Peace
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Love
Men
Sea
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Inspirational
Willpower
Talent
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.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Men
Judging
Feelings
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Inspirational
Motivational
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Life
Giving
Doubt
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Envy
Emotion
Insult
The more one judges, the less one loves.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Love
Inspiring
Positivity
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Truth
Real
War
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Happiness
Sacrifice
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Ignorance
Moments
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Jewels
Literature
Pearls
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Crime
Fortune
Behinds
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
Choices
Hardest