Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
Honore de BalzacNeither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
Honore de BalzacVirtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.
Honore de Balzac