It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
HONORE DE BALZACThe smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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