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Honore de Balzac

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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Ideas consume time and history just as people's strong emotions consume their lives. If people can overcome their intense desires, then human nature might improve on its own.

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