Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.
Honore de BalzacA woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.
Honore de BalzacThe day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.
Honore de Balzac