The counterfeits of the past take assumed names, and are fond of calling themselves the future. That eternally returning spector, the past, not infrequently falsifies its passport.
That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable,
Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke.Les Miserables
Running beer gathers no foam.
Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a la playa.
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
Peace is happiness digesting
One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by lightning.
Oh, you who are! Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and...
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-...
No army can stop an idea whose time has come
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
Nature at times adds her own commentary to our actions with a kind of somber and considered eloquence, as though she were bidding us reflect.
Misery offers; society accepts
Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited...
Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. That
It is the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear.