Quotes from book
The Girl with the Golden Eyes

Name: The Girl with the Golden Eyes
Author: Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de BalzacOriginal title La Fille aux yeux d'or (French, 1835)

La Fille aux yeux d'or is a novella by Honoré de Balzac. It is the third part of the Thirteen series, which includes the short stories Ferragus and La Duchesse de Langeais. It is also part of his La Comédie humaine novel sequence.

“Discretion is the best form of calculation.”

Honoré de Balzac book The Girl with the Golden Eyes

La discrétion est le plus habile des calculs. <br class="br"> La Fille aux yeux d'or http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Fille_aux_yeux_d%E2%80%99or (The Girl with the Golden Eyes) (1835), translated by Ellen Marriage, ch. III. <br class="br">La Fille aux yeux d'or (1833)

“In Paris the rich encounter wit ready-made, pre-digested science, and opinions already formulated, which excuse them from hand to have wit, science or opinion.”

Honoré de Balzac book The Girl with the Golden Eyes

La Fille aux yeux d'or (1833)