A Quote by Honore de Balzac

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

Honore de Balzac

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Action Fatality Incline Just Men Most Providence Thinkers Virtually

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Honore de Balzac
French - Novelist
May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

Honore de Balzac

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

Matthew Henry

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Nicolas Chamfort

When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

James Hilton

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

Samuel Johnson

The stars incline, but do not impel.

Robert A. Heinlein

I'm definitely on the incline to a peak.

Fred Durst

Humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. According to the Lord's parable, the importunity of the widow inclined a wicked and unjust judge to grant her petition (cf. Lk. 18:1 ff.). The Lord gave this parable for a special purpose ? to teach us not to faint, but to pray patiently. If an unjust judge was persuaded to grant the petition of the widow, how can God fail to incline His ear to our prayers, if we persist in imploring Him since He is the essence of lovingkindness?

Lorenzo Scupoli

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

Francis Bacon

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Jacques Barzun

Life is on an incline; you either go up, or you come down.

Kiran Bedi

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

Michel de Montaigne

Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do.