Honore de Balzac Quotes

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.

Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us human. This is why, from the day Facebook Platform launched in 2007, Causes has been honored to be one of the most popular applications, with over 140 million users.

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.

I challenge you [other men] to see if you can use the same qualities that you feel make you a man to go deeper into yourself. Your strength, your bravery, your toughness: Can we redefine what those mean and use them to explore our hearts? Are you brave enough to be vulnerable? To reach out to another man when you need help? To dive headfirst into your shame? Are you strong enough to be sensitive, to cry whether you are hurting or you're happy, even if it makes you look weak? Are you confident enough to listen to the women in your life? To hear their ideas and their solutions? To hold their anguish and actually believe them, even if what they're saying is against you? And will you be man enough to stand up to other men when you hear "locker room talk," when you hear stories of sexual harassment? When you hear your boys talking about grabbing ass or getting her drunk, will you actually stand up and do something so that one day we don't have to live in a world where a woman has to risk everything and come forward to say the words "me too?"

I hope to help people. I hope that I can be the escape that they need when things seem impossible or too tough.

It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.

My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.

What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.

A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.

You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

We are at our best when we help the weakest. The weak make us strong.