145 quotes
Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world.
Séraphîta (1835)
The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
Séraphîta (1835)
Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
Séraphîta (1835)
Tone is light in another shape. In music, instruments perform the functions of the colours employed in painting.
Gambara (1837)
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Life — is it anything more than a machine to which money imparts the motion?
Gobseck (1830)
Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.
Séraphîta (1835)
The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
Letters of Two Brides (1841)
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Letters of Two Brides (1841)
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)
The most virtuous women have in them something that is never chaste.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)
Men are like that, they can resist sound argument, yet yield to a glance.
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
Le Père Goriot (1835)
The tiniest flower is a thought, — a life which corresponds to certain lineaments of the Great Whole, of which they have a constant intuition.
Séraphîta (1835)
Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.
Séraphîta (1835)
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
There is no character in women’s faces before the age of thirty.
La Femme de trente ans (1842)
A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.