Honore de Balzac Quotes About Society

Quotes about: Society

• People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Society, Climbs

• Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

  Honore de Balzac

  Ocean, Society, Levels

• The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

  Honore de Balzac

  Summer, Spring, Flower

• Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

  Honore de Balzac

  Society, Genesis, Indulgence

• According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Sheep, Sea

• No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

  Honore de Balzac

  Society, Pity, Victim

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