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More Quotes by Honoré de Balzac
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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.
