A Quote by Honore de Balzac

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

Honore de Balzac

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Honore de Balzac
French - Novelist
May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

Francois Guizot

Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.

Sallust

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

Honore de Balzac

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

Andrew Jackson

In the soul of a Russian person there is always a drive toward some kind of lofty moral ideal, lofty moral values. That definitely sets us apart, and I'm certain it's in a good way.

Vladimir Putin

Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

Victor Hugo

Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.

Charles Kingsley

One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.

Jeremy Brett

Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.

Marie Leszczynska

Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

Charles Spurgeon

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

Cormac McCarthy

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

Honore de Balzac

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

Soren Kierkegaard

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Aristotle

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.