Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac
Honoré de Balzacbal.zak], born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 May 1799
CountryFrance
soul virtue lofty
Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
heart charity virtue
Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.
impossible virtue
What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.
women virtue defects
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
mind great-minds virtue
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
women human-nature virtue
Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
half virtue
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
marriage vexation virtue
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
soul virtue politeness
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
virtue force misfortunes
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.
art history humanity religion
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
inspirational men law
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
suicide wall writing
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.
simplicity inspire disrespect
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.