Character: Gobsek

I asked him what considerations forced him to charge me huge interest rates and why he wanted to help me, his friend, did not allow myself to have this blessing completely disinterested. "My son, I got you out of gratitude, I gave you the right to assume that you don't owe me anything. And that's why we're the best friends in the world".

Is it possible to judge even a penny for the man who has a debt of three hundred thousand francs, and soul for a penny?

And is unable to deny anything to someone who hands a bag of gold?

I own the world without tiring themselves, and the world has me the slightest power.

Means-to-action blend in with his results: never fail to distinguish between the soul and carnal sense, the spirit and matter.

Pay for all this luxury, pay for his title, pay for the happiness, for all the exclusive advantages, such as they are, but says Gobsek Countess de Resto. - To protect your good rich people invented the tribunals, judges, the guillotine, which, like moths to the fatal flame, fools rush yourself. But for you, for people who sleep on silk and silk hide, there is something else: the pangs of conscience, the gnashing of teeth, hiding a smile, the Chimera with a lion's mouth, visausa fangs in your heart.

You look at smut burning in the fireplace and see the lights of a female face, and I only see coal. You believe and I believe in nothing.

- If you put the word out a word about all this, gentlemen, shed your or my blood.
- Amen! told him Gobsek, hiding the pistols. - To shed his blood, we must have it, my dear, and in your veins instead of blood mud.

- So you sometimes do for fun?
- And you think only the poet who prints his poems?

She kept your plan with a rare art, and represents the highest degree of female treachery.

Life is a complex and difficult craft, and have to make the effort to learn it. When a person learns life, having experienced its sorrows, every fiber of the heart it will harden, get stronger, and it allows him to manage his sensitivity. The nerves then become no worse than steel springs - bend and not break. And if in addition and digestion are good, when a person will be tenacious and long-standing as the cedars of Lebanon, really gorgeous trees.

Life is a complex and difficult craft, and effort to learn it.

Misfortune is the best teacher. In adversity you learn a lot, learn the value of money, price people.

Gold - that's the spiritual essence of the whole of the present society.