110 ordspråk av Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
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And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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Believe anything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face
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Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together
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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
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Economized love is never real love
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact
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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
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Finance, like time, devours its own children.
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