But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling.
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is ev...
Carve as we will the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny constantly reappears in it.
Ceci tuera cela
Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they...
Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed to be a contradiction between the look in her eyes, which tended to melancho...
Children have their morning song as well as birds.
Darkness makes the brain giddy. Man needs light. Whoever plunges into the opposite of day feels his heart chilled. When the eye sees blackness, the mind sees trouble. In an eclipse, in night, in the s...
Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo)
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; ther...
Every torment they had experienced was returned to them an intoxication. It seemed to them that the griefs , the sleeplessness, the tears, the anguish, the dismay, the despair, became caresses and rad...
Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heaven's sake, why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are...
Everything can be parodied, even parody.
Everything looked charming to him now. Never again would he read these books, write on this little white wooden table!
Fex urbis, lex orbis (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome
First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
Go on philosophers--teach, enlighten, kindle, think aloud, speak up, run joyfully toward broad daylight, fraternize in the public squares, announce the glad tidings, lavish your alphabets, proclaim hu...
God gives air to men; the law sells it to them.
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
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