No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian of their deep and hidden life; and no one i...
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
البؤساء لاينرزن ورائهم لأنهم يعلمون بأن النحس يلازمهم وأن الشقاء يطاردهم
Why, there's the air, the sky, the morning, the evening, moonlight, my friends, women, the beautiful architecture of Paris to study, three big books to write and all sorts of other things. Anaxagoras...
Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injust...
True, I tore the drapery from the altar; but it was to dress the wounds of the country.
There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.
The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. This of all miseries is the coldest.
The episcopal palace of D—— adjoins the hospital.
The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the director of the hospital.
Poor children cannot enter the public gardens; still, one would think that, as children, they had a right to the flowers.
People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back.They know only too well that misfortune follows in their wake.
People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.
Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound and penetrating influence of nature knows this.
Nothing is more real than those great seismic shocks that two souls give each other in exchanging that spark.
Noise does not waken a drunkard; silence wakens him.