The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.
Honore de BalzacWhereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.
Honore de BalzacThanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
Honore de Balzac