"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Liberty 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."
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Source: 'Le Père Goriot' ('Father Goriot'). Book by Honoré de Balzac. Part II, 1835.
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