"Does not the human soul, so similar in its caprices to modern chemistry, mix itself with terrible poisons from the sudden mixing of its pleasures, powers and thoughts? Don't many people perish, as if struck by lightning, from the power of some moral corrosive acid that suddenly spills over their inner world?
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Honoré de BalzacAll Translations
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Does not the human soul, so similar in its caprices to modern chemistry, mix itself with terrible poisons from the sudden mixing of its pleasures, powers and thoughts? Don't many people perish, as if struck by lightning, from the power of some moral corrosive acid that suddenly spills over their inner world?
""A modern kémiához szeszélyeiben olyannyira hasonlatos emberi lélek nem kever-e vajon önmagának rettentő mérgeket gyönyöreinek, erőinek és gondolatainak hirtelen összeelegyítéséből? Nem vész-e el sok ember, mintha villám sújtotta volna, valami erkölcsi marósav erejétől, mely belső világán hirtelen elömlik?"