Honore De Balzac Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Men Quotes

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

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The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium Nudus castra peto.]

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

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IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

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Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently.

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Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

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As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

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All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

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Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

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The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

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Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

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Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

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So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

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A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

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It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.

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We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

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