Honore de Balzac Quotes About Virtue
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Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.
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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.
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What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.
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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
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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.
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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
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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.
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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.
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Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
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Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.
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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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