Honore de Balzac Quotes About Power
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
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A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
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I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.
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