Honore de Balzac. Pebbled leather (№ 452306)

Philosophical theories, religions, moral concepts, different under different latitudes, fell under a scythe as long as the scythe of Time. Caught up in a kind of storm, these minds, like waves beating against cliffs, were ready to shake all the laws between which civilizations swim - and thus, without knowing it themselves, carried out the will of God, who left a place in nature for good and evil and kept in secret meaning of their unceasing struggle.