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Famous Honore de Balzac Quotes
“There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.”
“What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.”
“Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.”
“Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.”
“Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.”
“Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.”
“Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.”
“Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.”
Source: Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life
Source: Letters of Two Brides
Source: Letters of Two Brides
Source: Seraphita: Works of Balzac
“A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.”
“Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.”
Source: The Physiology of Marriage