"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?"
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Source: Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.135, The Floating Press
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