"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.70, 谷月社
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