The shock caused by the fall of a careless word displaces that against which it strikes. At times it happens, without our knowing why, that because we have received an almost imperceptible blow from a...
The reflection of a fact is in itself a fact.
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.
The mind is a garden,
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows. A burst of laugh...
The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.
The bureau is closed, said Gavroche. I'm receiving no more complaints.
The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the door of ill and opened the door of good.
That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
Sunshine helps to make man patient.
Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.
Sometimes, if the two old womenwere not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at a veryadvanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with himself,peaceful, adoring, comparin...
So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.
She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
She had witnessed a conflict between two men who held her liberty in their hands, her very life and that of her child; one had sought to drag her deeper into darkness, the other to restore her to ligh...
Se per caso capiva che la sua infermità si tradisse per qualche apostrofe incoerente o per qualche domanda inintelligibile, la cosa passava per profondità presso alcuni, per imbecillità presso altri....
Sahte siyasi gerçekler ne kadar iğrenç! Bir düşünce, bir hayal, bir kavramdan dolayı giyotin adı verilen o korkunç gerçeklik!
Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.