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Quote by Honoré de Balzac
English (Source)
Our ridiculousness is largely caused by exaggerated beautiful feelings, virtues or good qualities. Pride, unmitigated by contact with the world, turns to ridicule when it manifests itself in small things instead of being able to find impetus in the midst of elevated emotions. Enthusiasm, the virtue of the virtues, which creates saints, which suggests secret self-sacrifices and the most brilliant poems, becomes exaggerated when it becomes entangled in the trivialities of country life. Away from the center, where great minds shine, where the air is full of thoughts, where everything is renewed - knowledge grows old, taste decays like stagnant water.