Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

  • -- Honoré de Balzac 尊敬的巴尔扎克

智慧是对属天事物的领悟,而精神是通过爱而上升的。

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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.

离开我的祖国,特别是离开我只愿意和他生活在一起的那片土地,我不能不感到悲伤;然而,我对即将降临在这片土地上的可怕的恐惧,也许有助于使我服从这上帝,尽管更加痛苦。

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

如果我们承认这个世界的创造是如此非凡的一件事,那么我们似乎就承认了一件人类所理解的、超越任何其他奇迹的、奇怪的、新奇的事情。

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

艺术是沉思。这是心灵的快乐,它探索自然,并在那里占卜自然本身所具有的精神。

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

没有自由的生活就像没有灵魂的躯体。