What did Honoré de Balzac mean by: Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France Copy
+ If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Honoré de Balzac, Civilization, Ignorant, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
+ First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Honoré de Balzac, First Love, Funny Love, Love, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
+ Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Honoré de Balzac, Cures, Evil, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
+ A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Honoré de Balzac, Pride, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
+ Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Honoré de Balzac, Anxiety, Mark, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
+ To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Honoré de Balzac, Abstract, Exhausted, Remains, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
+ The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Honoré de Balzac, Heart, Opportunity, Winning, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
+ Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Honoré de Balzac, Compassion, Curiosity, Feelings, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power. - Gary D. Schmidt Author
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. - Walter Darby Bannard Painter · USA
I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions. - Jean Kwok Author
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
Power … is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end. - Jeane Kirkpatrick Political scientist and diplomat
The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart. - William J. Clinton Politician · USA
No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man. - William Lloyd Garrison Abolitionist · USA
