A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage

Quote by Honore De Balzac

Topics: Courage Quotes, Teachers And Teaching Quotes

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule....

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule....

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of...

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of...

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint...

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint...

And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world

And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no...

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no...

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the...

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the...

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Economized love is never real love

Economized love is never real love

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that...

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that...

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.