Father Goriot Quotes

“Happiness is the poetry of woman, as the toilette is her tinsel.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

topic:happiness woman poetry

“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

topic:happiness self others

“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

topic:heart wealth

“The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

topic:heart

“If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

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“Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

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“Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

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“Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

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