Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!
Honore de BalzacLiberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
Honore de BalzacIntuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.
Honore de Balzac