"Whether he travels or stays by his hearth and his wife's skirt, sooner or later the age will come when life is nothing more than fixed habits to which a person indulges in an environment of his choosing. In such cases, there is only one happiness left for us: if we can develop our abilities that we can use in real life. Apart from these two methods, everything else is false.
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Author
Honoré de BalzacAll Translations
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Whether he travels or stays by his hearth and his wife's skirt, sooner or later the age will come when life is nothing more than fixed habits to which a person indulges in an environment of his choosing. In such cases, there is only one happiness left for us: if we can develop our abilities that we can use in real life. Apart from these two methods, everything else is false.
""Akár utazik, akár kandallója s felesége szoknyája mellett marad, előbb-utóbb elkövetkezik az a kor, amikor az élet már nem egyéb megrögzött szokásoknál, amelynek az ember egy általa kiválasztott környezetben hódol. Ilyenkor csak egy boldogság marad számunkra: ha kifejthetjük azokat a képességeinket, amelyeket a való életben hasznosítani tudunk. E két módszeren kívül minden más hamis."