Honore de Balzac Quotes
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Citations
Balzac, Honoré de. The Magic Skin. Translated by Ellen Marriage, J. M. Dent, 1895, p. 175.
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Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.