Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.
Vénérons le chien. Le chien (quel drôle de bête!), a sa sueur sur sa langue et son sourire dans sa queue.
Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, Lorsque nous etions si jeunes tous deux, Et que nous n'avions au coeur d'autre envie Que d'etre bien mis et d'etre amoureux, Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre age a mon age,...
Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providing free public education; and society will answer for the obscurity it produces. If the soul is left...
There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.
That's life said the philosopher each time he was almost laid prostrate, It's often our best friends who make us fall
She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep.
Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
No era la facultad de amar lo que le faltaba, sino la posibilidad.
Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other.
Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.
La nada no existe. Cero no existe. Todo es algo. Nada es nada.
It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced.
Hommes et femmes de Londres, me voici. Je vous félicite cordialement d'être anglais. Vous êtes un grand peuple. Je dis plus, vous êtes une grande populace. Vos coups de poing sont encore plus beaux qu...
He had, like everyone else, his suffix ist, without which nobody could have lived in those days, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orléanist, nor an anarchist; h...
Es que tiene en el alma una perla, la inocencia; y las perlas no se disuelven en el fango.[...]Se revuelca en estiércol y sale de él recubierto de estrellas.
Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.