Misfortune Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

11 Misfortune quotes by Honoré de Balzac

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Honore de Balzac delivers eleven concise observations that treat misfortune as a catalyst for character. Each quote cuts to the heart of how setbacks reveal hidden strengths.

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Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

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Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

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Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

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For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

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Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

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“Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.”

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All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another,…

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In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that…

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for…

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My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the…

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A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.

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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

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White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion…

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