Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of the Spiritual world.
Honoré de Balzac on Anniversary
1799–1850 France
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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)
The more a man judges, the less he loves.
The fate of the home depends on the first night.
The Physiology of Marriage (1829)
A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman.
Physiology of Marriage (1829)
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster which devours everything, that is, familiarity.
The Physiology of Marriage (1829)
Musicians are seldom unemotional; a woman who could sing like that must know how to love indeed.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831)
Letters of Two Brides (1841)
A Woman of Thirty (1842)
Pierrette (1840)
Letters of Two Brides (1841)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Honoré de Balzac (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.