Ignominy thirsts for respect.
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.
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...
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.
Do you permit it? Enjolras
Do we ever realize our fondest dreams?
Blind is he who will not see!
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...
My tastes are aristocratic my actions democratic.
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ... If the disposal of time is surren...
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan carries thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
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.
Where no plan is laid where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident chaos will soon reign.
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...
Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.
More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
إن للأحداث الكبيرة ذيولاً ليست في الحسبان
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