Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

L’égalité sera peut-être un droit, mais aucune puissance humaine ne saura le convertir en fait.

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Original Citation

Balzac, Honoré de. La Duchesse de Langeais. [The Duchess of Langeais]. 1834.

Current Citation

Balzac, Honoré de. "The Duchess of Langeais." History of the Thirteen/The Duchesse de Langeais/The Girl with the Golden Eyes. Translated by Ellen Marriage and Katherine Prescott Wormeley. e-artnow, 2020.