Prosperity brings with it an intoxication which inferior men are unable to resist.
La Comedie humaine · 1837
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
La Comedie humaine · 1834
Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit.
Physiologie du Mariage · 1829
In the desert there is all-and yet nothing…God is there and man is not.
La Comedie humaine · 1830