Honore de Balzac Quotes
But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.
Topics
Feelings
Protection
Secrecy
Heart
Victims, Victimization, Victimhood
Falling In Love
Self-Preservation
Executioner
Love, Romance
Concealed Emotions
Emotional Control
Emotional Suppression
Genuine Feelings
Guarded Emotions
Hidden Emotions
Protective Love
Secret Love
guarded affection
hidden love
secret affection
Citations
Balzac, Honoré de. Old Goriot. Translated by Ellen Marriage, J.M. Dent & Co., 1896, p. 95.
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Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.