Honore de Balzac Quotes About Evil
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Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
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Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.
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Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.
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Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.
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Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.
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Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.
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