Honore de
Honore de
cute-love cheating love-is
Love is a game in which one always cheats.
fake-people duplicity flow
A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
funny nature stupid
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
funny money tired
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
hate two hatred
Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
clouds veils shrouds
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
literature enchantment kind
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
book reading
Reading brings us unknown friends
seeking
While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.
mind benevolence persecution
Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.
heart skulls sight
Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?
winning men lasts
He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.
home light back-home
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
heart character maturity
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.