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Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

- Honore de Balzac | Marriage Quotes

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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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.

- Honore de Balzac | Will and Determination Quotes

There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.

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All happiness depends on courage and work.

- Honore de Balzac | Happiness Quotes

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

- Honore de Balzac | Forgiveness Quotes

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

- Honore de Balzac | Forgiveness Quotes

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

- Honore de Balzac | Other Side Quotes

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

- Honore de Balzac | God Quotes

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

- Honore de Balzac | Self-Confidence Quotes

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

- Honore de Balzac | Positive Quotes

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

- Honore de Balzac | Hope Quotes

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

- Honore de Balzac | Worry Quotes

All happiness depends on courage and work.

- Honore de Balzac | Courage Quotes

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

- Honore de Balzac | Adversity Quotes

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

- Honore de Balzac | Events Quotes

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

- Honore de Balzac | Beginnings Quotes

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

- Honore de Balzac | True Love Quotes

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

- Honore de Balzac | Husbands Quotes

To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

- Honore de Balzac | Laughter Quotes

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

- Honore de Balzac | Marriage Quotes

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

- Honore de Balzac | Modesty Quotes

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

- Honore de Balzac | Necessity Quotes

If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!

- Honore de Balzac | Painting Quotes

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

- Honore de Balzac | Passion Quotes

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

- Honore de Balzac | World Quotes