The faults of women, of children, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise.
No army can stop an idea whose time has come
October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. Room
Knowing that she was beautiful, she felt convinced, though in an indistinct way, that she had a weapon. Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this su...
Look down and show some mercy if you can. Look down, look down, upon your fellow man.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
He who despairs is wrong.
Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence.
Confiar es a veces abandonar.
Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a la playa.
That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
It's not enough to abolish abuse; custom must also be transformed. The mill was pulled down, but the wind still blows.
THE SUPREME HAPPINESS IN LIFE IS THE CONVICTION THAT WE ARE LOVED V. HUGO
If no one loved, the sun would go out.
Nous ne sommes pas de ceux qui flattent la guerre; quand l'occasion s'en présente, nous lui disons ses vérités. La guerre a d'affreuses beautés que nous n'avons point cachées; elle a aussi, convenons-...
En esos momentos de la existencia en que el hombre tiene necesidad de orgullo porque tiene necesidad de amor.
One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by lightning.
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.
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