Book: Grandet

Virtue, taught by experience, counting no worse than a blemish.

Misers do not believe in the hereafter, for them in the present. This idea sheds a terrifying light on the modern era when, more than at any other time, the money control the laws, policies and mores. Establish, books, people and doctrine - all conspire to undermine belief in a future life, which the society relied in the continued eighteen centuries. Now the grave - the transition, a little afraid. Future awaits us on the other side of Requiem, moved into the present. To accomplish per fas et nefas an earthly Paradise of luxury and vain pleasures, to turn a heart to stone, and the body to exhaust for possession of temporal goods, as once suffered fatal torment in the hope of eternal blessings - that is the General idea! The idea, moreover, inscribed everywhere, until the laws, the questioning of the legislator: "What pay?" instead say to him: "What thinkest?" When this teaching will be transferred from the bourgeoisie to the people, what will happen to the country?

In any situation, the share of women gets more grief and suffering than the share of men. The man had the power and opportunity to show his talents: he acts, moves, works, thinks, he foresees the future and it finds solace. So did Charles.
The woman stays in place. Alone with her sorrow, from which nothing distracts, it descends to the bottom of the gaping abyss, measures it, and often fills his vows and tears. So did Eugene. She knew his fate. To feel, to love, to suffer, to sacrifice themselves - that will always be the contents of a woman's life.

In the absence of father Eugene had the good fortune to openly tackle its beloved cousin, fearlessly pour out the treasures of his mercy - one of the highest manifestations of the superiority of women, the only one that she would give to feel beloved, only where it considers forgivable if the man admits that over it took over.

For her, wealth was neither a power nor a consolation, she could live only with love, religion, faith in the future...

True love is gifted with foresight and knows that love is love.

All happiness comes from ignorance.

Misfortunes that feeling that almost always happens.

Mourning in the heart, not the clothes.

Flattery never emanates from great souls, it is the lot of the small little soul, able to become even smaller, so it's better to enter the sphere of life of an important person, to which they gravitate. Flattery implies greed.