What did Honoré de Balzac mean by: What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France Copy
+ How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return? Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Honoré de Balzac, Envy, Vices, Yield, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
+ Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Honoré de Balzac, Marriage, Monsters, Wedding, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
+ It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. Feraz Zeid, August 22, 2023December 29, 2023, Honoré de Balzac, Action, Difficulty, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
+ Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Honoré de Balzac, Debtors, Forgiveness, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
+ The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Honoré de Balzac, Happiness, Revenge, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
+ True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love! Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Honoré de Balzac, Difficulty, Love, Money, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
+ Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Honoré de Balzac, Earth, Love, Sun, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
+ A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Honoré de Balzac, Beautiful, Book, Victory, 0 - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
