Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de BalzacFrom the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
Honore de BalzacWhen attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.
Honore de Balzac