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HonorÃ© de Balzac Quotes


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. HonorÃ© de Balzac Ideals 128
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. HonorÃ© de Balzac Bureaucracy 102
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. HonorÃ© de Balzac Manners 102
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. HonorÃ© de Balzac Truth 90
Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things. HonorÃ© de Balzac Satisfaction 88
One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others. HonorÃ© de Balzac Life 84
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. HonorÃ© de Balzac Crime 82
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. HonorÃ© de Balzac Boasting 73
It is a singular fact that many men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in a divine providence. HonorÃ© de Balzac Fate 72
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. HonorÃ© de Balzac Misfortune 66
All human power is a compound of time and patience. HonorÃ© de Balzac Power 65
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. HonorÃ© de Balzac Failure 59
Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist. HonorÃ© de Balzac Justice 38

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