To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. To love is a consummation.
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...
My tastes are aristocratic my actions democratic.
The poor man shuddered inside, flooded with an angelic bliss; he told himself in a burst of joy that this would last all his life; he
He plainly perceived this truth, the basis of his life henceforth, that so long as she should be alive, so long as he should have her with him, he should need nothing except for her, and fear nothing...
The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced.
The nourishment of the people is a good object; to massacre them is a bad means.
Our judgement of a man would be much sounder were it based on what he dreams rather than on what he thinks.
Of a disposition at once unsociable and talkative, desiring to see no one, yet wishing to converse with some one, he got out of the difficulty by talking to himself.
Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie with...
La lumière des torches ressemble à la sagesse des lâches; elle éclaire mal, parce qu'elle tremble.
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but that it has moved forward.
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...
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Neither was to blame for the way they felt, because Marius was someone who embraces sorry and dwells in it, but Cosette felt it deeply but recovered.
إن الإرادة الطيبة لا تضيف بصلة واحدة إلى الحساء، وهى لا تصلح إلا للذهاب إلى الجنة
In the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits;
I never realized my ugliness till now. When I compared myself with you, I pity myself indeed, poor unhappy monster that I am! I must seem to you like some awful beast, eh? You,-you are a sunbeam, a dr...
In churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a contradi...
They fathomed principle; they attached themselves to right. They longed for the absolute, they caught glimpses of the infinite realisations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, pushes the mind towards...
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