Time is greedy, man is greedier
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...
The only social peril is darkness.
The mind is a garden,
Society absolutely must look into these things since they are its own work.
She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep...
Running beer gathers no foam.
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
Or, donner la grosse cloche en mariage à Quasimodo, c'était donner Juliette à Roméo.
Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
No corruption is possible with the diamond.
Misery offers; society accepts
Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.
Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the fact of the sixteenth...
It is painful to break the sad links to the past
Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
He thought her more beautiful than ever, with a beauty that was at once feminine and angelic, that wholeness of beauty that had moved Petrarch to song and brought Dante to his knees.
God knows better than we do what we need.
Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you.
For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.