Honore de Balzac. Gobsek (№ 17518)

Whether you are a Vagabond traveler, whether you are a homebody and not leave the whole century with his kamelek Yes, with his wife, still comes to an age when all life is only the habit of their favorite IDE. And then happiness consists in the exercise of their abilities in relation to everyday reality. And besides these two rules, all others are false. I have here the principles varied according to circumstances, had to change them depending on the geographical latitudes. What in Europe is a delight, in Asia punished. What Paris considered a flaw for the Azores is recognized necessity. There is on earth nothing vicious, there are only conventions, and in every climate, they are different.