Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
إن الموت يجعلني إنساناً شريراً !!
There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of...
The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.
Sin is a gravitation.
Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.
People do not read stupidities with impunity.
Homo homini monstrum
He was Antinous, wild. You would have said, seeing the thoughtful reflection of his eye, that he had already, in some preceding existence, been through the revolutionary apocalypse. He knew its tradit...
He opposed the hardness acquired during the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortu...
Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
France is great because she is France.
For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
A good mayor is a useful person. How can you hold back when you have the chance to do good?
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.
Where no plan is laid where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident chaos will soon reign.