Honore de Balzac on choice
Honore de Balzac141 quotes“To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.”
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.
Honore de BalzacHonore 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 BalzacHonore de Balzac Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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More on choice
If you choose to make everyone happy, you choose not to make yourself happy.
SargamSargam It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
Karl PopperKarl Popper We have a choice to build or destroy, to fight or to come together.
Jhene AikoJhene Aiko Some choices are destined to be mistakes.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette If you didn’t want her to scream so loud you shouldn’t have tried to strangle her voice -both love & violence are a choice.
Charlie GilbertCharlie Gilbert Whatever I feel is not a choice, but dwelling on it is, so I stand up and walk and walk and walk a w a y.
VesmirVesmir People who break your heart should not be a choice anymore.
H. DcostaH. Dcosta You are where you are based on the choices of your past.
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