Temperament is the thermometer of character.
HONORE DE BALZACHatred 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.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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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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Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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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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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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