A vacancy in the heart does not accomodate itself to a stop-gap.
A bird alone could have extricated himself from that place.
Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is authority based on falsehood, whereas science is authority based...
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
من شما را بجای دین قبول نمی کنم،شما انگل و آفت دینید...نفرتی که شما به خود جلب می کنید به دین هم تاثیر می بخشد و مردم را از آن بیزار می کند...کلیسا بود که پرینلی را به خاطر این سخن که: ستارگان از جای...
إن الإرادة الطيبة لا تضيف بصلة واحدة إلى الحساء، وهى لا تصلح إلا للذهاب إلى الجنة
¿Qué había esta vez en la mirada de la joven? Marius no hubiera podido decirlo. No había nada y lo había todo. Fue un relámpago extraño.[...]Es una especie de ternura indecisa que se revela al azar y...
Weep for them all, the bishop said. Equally, G——— exclaimed, and if the balance tips, let it be on the side of the people: They have suffered longer.
Our judgement of a man would be much sounder were it based on what he dreams rather than on what he thinks.
In the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits;
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...
Decimated
Ystäväni, painakaa mieleenne, ettei ole olemassa enempää huonoja kasveja kuin huonoja ihmisiäkään. On vain huonoja viljelijöitä. (Jean Valjean)
Youth, even in its sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance.
You have to be used to the twists of fate and being caught up in them to dare lift your eyes when certain questions appear in all their horrible starkness. Good or evil are behind the stern question m...