We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We a... -Honore de Balzac

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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Honore de Balzac , Novelist
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Honore de Balzac Quotes to Explore

A mother who is really a mother is never free....
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues....
Love is the poetry of the senses....
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught....
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power....
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime....
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing....
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories....
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart....
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact....

Happiness Quotes to Explore

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck....
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But i...
Being married to your best friend, that's happiness....
Me, I've been lucky to be good at happiness....
While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness....
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime....
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, tha...
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and the...
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are....
Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your...