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> [“It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these days traitors wear gloves, scoundrels cloak themselves in public esteem, and their victims die broken-hearted, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/it-is-at-the-family-fireside-often-under-the-shelter-of-the-law/)

[Émile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

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## Other authors on Tragedies Life

## More by Émile Gaboriau

> [“I have watched him as only a woman can watch a man upon whom her fate depends, but it has always been in vain.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/i-have-watched-him-as-only-a-woman-can-watch-a-man-upon-whom-her-fate/)

[Émile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

> [Women never confess and even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course they are not sincere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/women-never-confess-and-even-when-they-seemingly-resign-themselves-to/)

[Emile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

> [“You say she loves him? No one but a coward would be defrauded of the woman he loved and who loved him. Ah, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/you-say-she-loves-him-no-one-but-a-coward-would-be-defrauded-of-the/)

[Émile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

> [“It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/it-is-at-the-family-fireside-often-under-the-shelter-of-the-law/)

[Émile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

> [Woman submits to her fate; man makes his](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/woman-submits-to-her-fate-man-makes-his/)

[Emile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

> [“Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor…”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/excessive-suffering-brings-with-it-a-kind-of-dull-insensibility-and/)

[Émile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

> [Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/alas-we-must-suffer-ourselves-before-we-can-feel-for-others/)

[Emile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

> [“As to acknowledging that he was about to obtain a triumph with the ideas of another man, he never thought of such a thing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/as-to-acknowledging-that-he-was-about-to-obtain-a-triumph-with-the/)

[Émile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

> [“...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/chance-is-sometimes-a-wonderful-accomplice-in-crime/)

[Émile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

> [Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/revenge-is-a-luscious-fruit-which-you-must-leave-to-ripen/)

[Emile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

> [“Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/vengeance-is-a-delicious-fruit-which-must-be-allowed-to-ripen-in/)

[Émile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

> [A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/a-father-is-the-one-friend-upon-whom-we-can-always-rely-in-the-hour/)

[Emile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

> [He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/he-was-as-yet-not-sufficiently-experienced-in-ruffianism-to-know-that/)

[Emile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

> [“Like those imperceptible insects which, having once penetrated the root of a tree devour it in a single night, suspicion, when it invades our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/like-those-imperceptible-insects-which-having-once-penetrated-the/)

[Émile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

> [Women never confess; even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course, they are never sincere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mile-gaboriau/women-never-confess-even-when-they-seemingly-resign-themselves-to/)

[Emile Gaboriau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mile-gaboriau/)

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