"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.87, 谷月社
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