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Honore de Balzac - From the Activity category:
It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Amusement category:
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the Spring, and Youth. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Architecture category:
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Art category:
What is art? Nature concentrated. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Friendship category:
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Friendship category:
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Gender category:
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Humanity category:
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Humour category:
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Imitation category:
You may imitate, but never counterfeit. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Moderation category:
Modesty is the conscience of the body. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Money category:
Finance, like time, devours its own children. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Passion category:
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Pleasure category:
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Power category:
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Profession category:
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Seeing category:
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Sleep category:
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Solitude category:
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Symbols category:
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Talent category:
There is no such thing as great talent without great willpower. (Honore de Balzac)
Honore de Balzac - From the Thought category:
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most people of thought believe in providence. (Honore de Balzac)
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