Honore de Balzac Quotes
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
Citations
Balzac, Honoré de. Old Goriot. Translated by Ellen Marriage, J.M. Dent & Co., 1896, p. 118.
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Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.