Honore de Balzac Quotes About Soul
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Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.
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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
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Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.
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Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.
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But does not happiness come from the soul within?
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Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.
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The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.
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All we are is in the soul.
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Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
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Sensuality is the death of the soul.
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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.
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I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
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