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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.


Honore de Balzac

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
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JOHANN MOST The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its expone...
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OCTAV DRUTA Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.]
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CARLOS WALLACE Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial.
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HONORé DE BALZAC Most people are good people, ... Some of them are trapped in their neighborhoods and they're afraid.
ANNE SCHWARTZ Most people are good people, ... Some of them are trapped in their neighborhoods and they're afraid.
ANNE E. SCHWARTZ There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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HONORE DE BALZAC What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously bl...
HONORE DE BALZAC A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
HONORE DE BALZAC It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witt...
HONORE DE BALZAC Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the o...
HONORE DE BALZAC The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
HONORE DE BALZAC During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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HONORE DE BALZAC A mother who is really a mother is never free.
HONORE DE BALZAC The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
HONORE DE BALZAC Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
HONORE DE BALZAC Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
HONORE DE BALZAC Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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HONORE DE BALZAC To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
HONORE DE BALZAC I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
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HONORE DE BALZAC The man who can but sketch his purpose beforehand in words is regarded as a wonder, and every artist...
HONORE DE BALZAC If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
HONORE DE BALZAC Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yours...
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HONORE DE BALZAC We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
HONORE DE BALZAC Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gon...
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HONORE DE BALZAC Love is a game in which one always cheats.
HONORE DE BALZAC Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
HONORE DE BALZAC Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.
HONORE DE BALZAC Cruelty and fear shake hands together
HONORE DE BALZAC Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
HONORE DE BALZAC The more one judges, the less one loves.
HONORE DE BALZAC A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over...
HONORE DE BALZAC One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
HONORE DE BALZAC Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
HONORE DE BALZAC Love is the poetry of the senses.
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HONORE DE BALZAC The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
HONORE DE BALZAC Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
HONORE DE BALZAC Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
HONORE DE BALZAC A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
HONORE DE BALZAC Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZAC There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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HONORE DE BALZAC It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
HONORE DE BALZAC Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
HONORE DE BALZAC True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demons...
HONORE DE BALZAC A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
HONORE DE BALZAC Finance, like time, devours its own children.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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HONORE DE BALZAC No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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HONORE DE BALZAC An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
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HONORE DE BALZAC When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
HONORE DE BALZAC A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
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HONORE DE BALZAC I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
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HONORE DE BALZAC The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
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HONORE DE BALZAC If we all said people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
HONORE DE BALZAC Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
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HONORE DE BALZAC With monuments as with men, position means everything.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if...
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HONORE DE BALZAC Economized love is never real love
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HONORE DE BALZAC They must have the defects of their qualities.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
HONORE DE BALZAC Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
HONORE DE BALZAC Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
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HONORE DE BALZAC A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way...
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HONORE DE BALZAC A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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HONORE DE BALZAC A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness
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HONORE DE BALZAC Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
HONORE DE BALZAC A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.
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HONORE DE BALZAC We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
HONORE DE BALZAC Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
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HONORE DE BALZAC Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
HONORE DE BALZAC Man is young as long as he can repeat his emotions; woman, as long as she can inspire them
HONORE DE BALZAC It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better,...
HONORé DE BALZAC Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.
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HONORé DE BALZAC All happiness depends on courage and work.
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HONORé DE BALZAC Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
HONORé DE BALZAC Behind every great fortune there is a crime
HONORé DE BALZAC The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, bu...
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HONORé DE BALZAC Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
HONORé DE BALZAC Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
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HONORé DE BALZAC Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.
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HONORé DE BALZAC And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
HONORé DE BALZAC To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-f...
HONORé DE BALZAC Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
HONORé DE BALZAC La Société ne fait-elle pas de l'homme, suivant les milieux où son action se déploie, autant d'h...
HONORé DE BALZAC Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
HONORé DE BALZAC Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
HONORé DE BALZAC Es fehlt uns eben leider nie an Geld für unsere Launen. Wir markten nur um den Preis für nützlich...
HONORé DE BALZAC Love is the poetry of the senses.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle ...
CARL HONORE 'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be...
CARL HONORE The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent...
CARL HONORE Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, gra...
CARL HONORE Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started...
CARL HONORE You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. Y...
CARL HONORE I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of...
CARL HONORE Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through ...
CARL HONORE My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and...
CARL HONORE The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this messa...
CARL HONORE