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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

Honore de Balzac
Mind, Great Minds, Virtue

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

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Half, Virtue

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

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Women, Human Nature, Virtue
Honore de Balzac (2014). “Analytical Studies: Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life”, p.67, The Floating Press

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

Honore de Balzac
Soul, Virtue, Lofty

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

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Soul, Literature, Virtue
Honore de Balzac (1925). “The Physiology of Marriage”, p.66, Library of Alexandria

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

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Women, Virtue, Defects

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

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Impossible, Virtue

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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Virtue, Force, Misfortunes

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

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Marriage, Vexation, Virtue

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

Honore de Balzac
Heart, Charity, Virtue

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