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More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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.
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
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.
