Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.
Honore de BalzacThere are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
Honore de BalzacThe secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
Honore de Balzac