![Honore de Balzac quote: "Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions...."](http://quotesbox.org/pic/12300/924x470/quotation-honore-de-balzac-ideas-devour-the-ages-as-men-are-devoured-by.jpg)
![](/media/106/101.jpg)
![](/media/106/102.jpg)
![](/media/106/103.jpg)
![](/media/106/104.jpg)
![](/media/106/105.jpg)
![](/media/106/100.jpg)
![](/media/106/101.jpg)
![](/media/106/102.jpg)
![](/media/106/103.jpg)
![](/media/106/104.jpg)
![](/media/106/105.jpg)
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de BalzacAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: french
- Born: May 20, 1799
- Died: August 18, 1850
Related Authors
Topics
Quotes currently Trending
![Brent Scowcroft quote: "I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than..."](/pic/73208/600x316/quotation-brent-scowcroft-im-afraid-that-the-united-states-is-more.jpg)
![Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so..."](/pic/364939/600x316/quotation-fyodor-dostoevsky-so-long-as-man-remains-free-he-strives-for.jpg)
![Benjamin Graham quote: "An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis,..."](/pic/269147/600x316/quotation-benjamin-graham-an-investment-operation-is-one-which-upon.jpg)
Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit itself now and then? And name me a person who in a bad mood will be decent enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy around him. Is it not rather an inner dissatisfaction with our own unworthiness, a dislike of ourselves that is always associated with envy aggravated by foolish conceit? We see people happy and not made happy by us, and that is...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
![Patty Duke quote: "I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that..."](/pic/193960/600x316/quotation-patty-duke-im-going-to-be-58-and-im-a-woman-in-this.jpg)