Honore De Balzac Quotes, Men Quotes, Despair Quotes

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

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...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

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To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

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My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

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The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

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The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

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He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

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Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

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What good is this body? Let it go in helping others. Did not the Master preach until the very end? And shall I not do the same? I do not care a straw if the body goes. You cannot imagine how happy I am when I find earnest seekers after truth to talk to. In the work of waking up Atman in my fellow men I shall gladly die again and again!

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Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.

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Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.

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To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

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