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Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

Honore de Balzac

Heart, Pride, Men

Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.74, 谷月社

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

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Anger, Heart, Mud

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.

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Heart, Character, Maturity

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.

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Heart, Hatred, Here And There

Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.24, Library of Alexandria

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

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Horse, Heart, Intelligent

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

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Heart, Charity, Virtue

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

Honore de Balzac

Heart, Inferiority, Rivals

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

Honore de Balzac

Heart, Despair, Costumes