Honore de Balzac Virtue Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

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

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

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