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More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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.
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
