There is a spectacle greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a spectacle greater than the sky, and that is the human soul.
There exists yonder in the mountains, said the Bishop, a tiny community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. They are my good friends, those gentle and honest shepherds. They ow...
There are moments when the hands of a woman possess super human force.
The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
Table talk and amorous talk are equally impossible to grasp; amorous talk is all pretty bubbles, table talk, hot air.
So you're giving up? That's it? Okay, okay. We'll leave you alone, Quasimodo. We just thought, maybe you're made up of something much stronger.
Slaying wealth is not the same thing as dividing it.
Se dice que en toda manada de lobos hay un perro al que la loba mata, porque si lo deja vivir al crecer devoraría a los demás cachorros. Dad un rostro humano a este perro hijo de loba y tendréis el re...
Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be lucky, and you wi...
Phoebus de Chateaupers likewise came to a 'tragic end': he married.
Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.
Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The...
One day—when the emperor had come to call on his uncle the cardinal—our worthy priest happened to be waiting as his Majesty went by. Noticing that the old man looked at him with a certain curiosity, N...
Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
Nihilism has no point. There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance and her sunlight, from before human cruelty or suffering. She overwhelms man by the contrast between divine beauty and soc...
My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
Love each other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other.
Listen, Monsieur Director, here's what I think. Obviously this is wrong. There are twenty-six of you in five or six small rooms; there are three of us in space enough for sixty. That is wrong, I assur...
Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence.