The Deputy Of Arcis Quotes

“build no barricades when no one attacks you. Don't excite tempests of heart and conscience merely to pacify your conscience and quiet your heart, now ruffled only by a tiny breeze.”
― Honoré de Balzac, The Deputy Of Arcis

“in order not to make him a fixed idea, a regret, a struggle,—three things which poison life.”
― Honoré de Balzac, The Deputy Of Arcis