I prefer thought to action, an idea to an event, reflection to activity.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent idealsthat is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.Honoré de Balzac
Believe everything you hear said of the world nothing is too impossibly bad.
Honoré de Balzac
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Honore de Balzac
The glory of surgeons is like that of actors, who exist only in their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.
Honoré de Balzac
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
Honore de Balzac
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Honore de Balzac
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