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"Old Man Goriot" Quotes
"Old Man Goriot" by Honoré de Balzac follows the intersecting lives of a devoted father ruined by his sacrifices for his ungrateful daughters and a young law student navigating Parisian society.
Quotes
When you have lived as long as I have, you will see that all our sentiments are mere deductions of self-interest.
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest perfidies, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
No one dares to be honest in society; it would be like running about naked among people who are dressed.
A man should be as careful in the choice of his enemies as in the choice of his friends.
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour undivided love into it, you are bankrupt.
The secrets of success are a good memory, an imagination that can place itself at the point of view of the other man, and a power of getting back to the same spot in the road.
There are some loves that grow like the lily and some that grow like the oak, but the former are the most beautiful.
There is something in a woman’s love that transforms the heart of every man who has known it.
There is no worse man than a man who has no heart.
