Honoré de Balzac Quote

How frightful is man's condition! There is not one of his joys which does not come from some ignorance or other.


Eugénie Grandet (1833) 'Portraits of Bourgeois' (translated by Sylvia Raphael)


How frightful is man's condition! There is not one of his joys which does not come from some ignorance or other.

How frightful is man's condition! There is not one of his joys which does not come from some ignorance or other.

How frightful is man's condition! There is not one of his joys which does not come from some ignorance or other.

How frightful is man's condition! There is not one of his joys which does not come from some ignorance or other.