Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
HONORE DE BALZACTemperament is the thermometer of character.
More Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
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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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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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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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