Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, for beauty heightened by artlessness is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as dazzling innocence,...
Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the health of one who is dear to you, today you fear...
Thought is the labour of the intellect reverie is its pleasure.
Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from teh fact that her little bed was very white.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
طوبي له من عابد رأي عيوب نفسه فقومها, ورأي عوب الناس فأغضي عنها, ورأي الضلال والكفر فاستعان بالله علي مافيه الخير والمنفعة
Мы знаем, что существует философия, отрицающая бесконечность. Существует также философия, отрицающая солнце; эту философию, относящуюся к области патологии, именуют слепотой. Возводить недостающее нам...
When your day has been teeming with different sensations, when you have things on your mind, you can get to sleep to start with but you can't get back to sleep. Sleep comes a lot more easily than it c...
Whatever To-day may be, To-morrow will be peace.
We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resem...
To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind's still there, blowing away.
To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles.
To love and be loved, that is the miracle of youth
The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow.