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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
“For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.”
“People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.”
“Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.”
Source: The Atheist's Mass
“It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.”
“For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.”
“And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.”