Cette citation est attribuée à Honoré de Balzac, extraite de son roman 'La Peau de chagrin' (1831), qui explore les thèmes du désir, de la richesse et de la condition humaine dans la société française du XIXe siècle.
"With equal spirit and light, the man born rich should never know, as well as the poor, nature, the human heart, and society. It is that at the moment when one placed a pleasure, the other consoled himself with a reflection."