I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I have not...
The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the director of the hospital.
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back.They know only too well that misfortune follows in their wake.
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls, a ceiling of stone, a pavement of tiles, a camp bed, a grated air-ho...
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.
The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous yet simple.
Poor children cannot enter the public gardens; still, one would think that, as children, they had a right to the flowers.
The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.
I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.
Noise does not waken a drunkard; silence wakens him.
Everyone has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not said to a cat, Do come in! There are men who, when an incid...
Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or a number of entangled jealousies. It is, legally speaking, every aptitude having the sa...
L’homme a sur lui la chair, qui est tout à la fois son fardeau et sa tentation. Il la traîne et lui cède.
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
The episcopal palace of D—— adjoins the hospital.
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