Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as...
His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
Ne pas voir les gens, cela permet de leur supposer toutes les perfections.
How was Jean Valjean going to conduct himself in the face of Cosette and Marius's happiness? A happiness he himself had wanted, that he himself had made; he was the one who had stabbed himself in the...
When one does wrong, one must do it thoroughly.
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself....
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...
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
It is nothing to die; it is horrible not to live.
I did not think that it was so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that un...
The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, the inexhaustible is requisite.Love participates of the s...
It had been written with one foot in the grave and a finger in heaven. These lines, falling one by one onto the paper, were what could be called soul drops. Who could these pages come from? Who could...
To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday.
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing...
Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of abstraction, the pr...
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Il n’y a rien de tel pour épier les actions des gens que ceux qu’elles ne regardent pas.
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