Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?
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Citations by Honoré de Balzac
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.
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Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world. Thus man takes note of more than he is able to explain, while the Angelic Spirit sees and comprehends. Science depresses man; Love exalts the Angel. Science is still seeking, Love has found. Man judges Nature according to his own relations to her; the Angelic Spirit judges it in its relation to Heaven. In short, all things have a voice for the Spirit.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Lucidity of mind, like the rays of the sun, can have no effect except by the continuity of a direct line; it can divine only on condition of not breaking that line; the curvettings of chance bemuddle it.
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No man would have torn himself from the comfort of a morning nap to listen to a minstrel in a jacket; none but a maid awakes to songs of love.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
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