Honore de Balzac Quotes

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

Honore de Balzac

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• Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

  

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• The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

  

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• Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Remembrance
  • Discouragement
  • Presentiment