Melmoth Reconciled Quotes

“If you have any mind to keep my respect, I recommend you not to add imbecility to these qualities by imagining that such a girl as I am will be content with your asthmatic love, and not look for youth and good looks and pleasure by way of a variety—”
― Honoré de Balzac, Melmoth Reconciled

“Government offices are part of a great scheme for the manufacture of the mediocrity necessary for the maintenance of a Feudal System on a pecuniary basis-and money is the foundation of the Social Contract.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Melmoth Reconciled