Life would be easy enough if we were not continually exerting ourselves to forge new chains, and invent absurd formalities which make it a burden.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)

Honoré de Balzac Quotes

Life would be easy enough if we were not continually exerting ourselves to forge new chains, and invent absurd formalities which make it a burden.

Life would be easy enough if we were not continually exerting ourselves to forge new chains, and invent absurd formalities which make it a burden.

Life would be easy enough if we were not continually exerting ourselves to forge new chains, and invent absurd formalities which make it a burden.

Life would be easy enough if we were not continually exerting ourselves to forge new chains, and invent absurd formalities which make it a burden.