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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
"Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait."
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Balzac published a series of interlinked novels called “La Comédie Humaine” or “The Human Comedy”, and “Le Père Goriot” was part of this series. Eventually all were translated into English, and here is a rendering of the statement above published in 1896: 2
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.
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The secret of a great fortune made without apparent cause is soon forgotten, if the crime is committed in a respectable way.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/09/fortune-crime/
