Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
Honore de BalzacPoets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.
Honore de BalzacRich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
Honore de Balzac