Honoré de Balzac

Puzzles

• Behind every great fortune there is a ___.
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• A mother who is really a mother is never ___.
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• Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking ___.
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• In diving to the bottom of ___ we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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• Equality may perhaps be a ___, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
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• All happiness depends on ___ and work.
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• There is no such thing as a great talent without great ___power.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Honoré de Balzac?

  • → The more one judges, the less one loves.
  • → Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
  • → I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
  • → The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Honoré de Balzac.

  • → Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
  • → As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
  • → Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
  • → It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Honoré de Balzac.

  • → Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
  • → Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
  • → If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
  • → Life decreases in direct proportion to the force of desire.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Honoré de Balzac. Which one?

  • → Trust not him that seems a saint.
  • → Money is a powerful force only when there's huge amount of it.
  • → It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
  • → It is opposition that makes us productive.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Honoré de Balzac?

  • → Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
  • → At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
  • → We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.
  • → Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Honoré de Balzac?

  • → Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
  • → Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
  • → We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
  • → The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Honoré de Balzac.

  • → We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
  • → If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
  • → There is no greater human power on earth than the tremendous indignation of the people.
  • → A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.
  
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