A Quote by Honore de Balzac

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

Honore de Balzac

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Acts Dupe Every Experiences Feeling Horrible Man Maxim Noble Nothing Solvent

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

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

Dalton Trumbo

Every man is his own greatest dupe.

William Rounseville Alger

I have had really positive experiences in every medium, as well as horrible experiences in every medium.

Jimmi Simpson

Whoever makes an attempt on a man's life, on a man's liberty, on a man's honour inspires us with a feeling of horror in every way analogous to that which the believer experiences when he sees his idol profaned.

Emile Durkheim

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

Babatunde Adebimpe

Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

Henry Ward Beecher

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

Jean de la Bruyere

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

Carlos Castaneda

All that waiting around for a glimmer of stage time, just getting angry every week... It was just an oppressive, horrible, horrible place to be. I went to work feeling nauseous.

Jay Mohr

The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

Adam Carolla

It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.

Leo Tolstoy

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.