Honore de Balzac Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Sisterhood, Giving

• Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

  Honore de Balzac

  Half, Virtue

• Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mind, Great Minds, Virtue

• A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Vexation, Virtue

• The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jesus, Police, Enemy

• The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

  Honore de Balzac

  Karma, Spiritual, Memories

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.101, 谷月社

• A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Strong, Prayer

• There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Philosophy, History

• Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Vices, Audacity, Innocence

• Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

  Honore de Balzac

  Soul, Virtue, Lofty

• Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

  Honore de Balzac

  Ideas, Paris, Pet

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.117, The Floating Press

• Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Thinking, Law

• Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Love Is, Self

• Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Children, Character

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.186, The Floating Press

• Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

  Honore de Balzac

  Virtue, Force, Misfortunes

• How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

  Honore de Balzac

  Quality, Vices, Failing

• White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

  Honore de Balzac

  Strong, Queens, Prayer

  "Seraphita". Book by Honoré de Balzac. Chapter 6: "The Road to Heaven", 1834.

• Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

  Honore de Balzac

  Feelings, Ignorant, Pieces

• Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Two, People, Sublime

• Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Charity, Virtue

• Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Feelings, Stronger

• What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

  Honore de Balzac

  Impossible, Virtue

• Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Virtue, Defects

• Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

  Honore de Balzac

  Soul, Literature, Virtue

  Honore de Balzac (1925). “The Physiology of Marriage”, p.66, Library of Alexandria

• Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Work, Men

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