Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
More Quotes from Honore de Balzac:
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.Honore de Balzac
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
Honore de Balzac
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de Balzac
The house is turned entirely upside down when the hen crows and the cock is silent.
Honoré de Balzac
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Honore de Balzac
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Man Quotes, Passion QuotesBased on Keywords: devour, devoured
I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.
Billy Sherwood
Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.
Martha Gellhorn
ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
Lasse Hallstrom