"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?"
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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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