| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5388 |
| QUOTATION: | Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850), French novelist. (1846, trans. by George Saintsbury, 1971). About Catherine of Medici, First published in book form as Catherine de Medici expliquée, Souverain (1843), It was subsequently included in the Conte et romans philosophiques, in the Etudes philsophique, and finally in the Comédie humaine.
Balzac’s judgement. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Balzac Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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