"Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?"
― Honore de Balzac
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Society
― Honore de Balzac
More From Honore de Balzac
- "The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
- "A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning."
- "Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty."
More In Society
- "Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them."― Brian Ferneyhough
- "A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."― Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be."― Benjamin Tucker