It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise...
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French...
France is great because she is France.
Once she looked up from her work and was floored by the anxious way her father was looking at her.
A good mayor is a useful person. How can you hold back when you have the chance to do good?
Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
Nothing is more real than those great seismic shocks that two souls give each other in exchanging that spark.
Sin is a gravitation.
إن الموت يجعلني إنساناً شريراً !!
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...
Hay siempre en el pensamiento cierta cantidad de rebelión interior, y le irritaba sentirla dentro de sí.
He said, moreover, Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This...
What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...
People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.
I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised my life. Do you know who it is you are destroying here? It is yourself.
Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
Society absolutely must look into these things since they are its own work.
Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.
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