Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
HONORE DE BALZACThe secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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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.
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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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We love because we love.
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