Honoré de Balzac Quote

Marriage has its unknown great men, as war has its Napoleons, poetry its Chéniers, and philosophy its Descartes.


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


Marriage has its unknown great men, as war has its Napoleons, poetry its Chéniers, and philosophy its Descartes.

Marriage has its unknown great men, as war has its Napoleons, poetry its Chéniers, and philosophy its Descartes.

Marriage has its unknown great men, as war has its Napoleons, poetry its Chéniers, and philosophy its Descartes.

Marriage has its unknown great men, as war has its Napoleons, poetry its Chéniers, and philosophy its Descartes.