Victor hugo, Les Contemplations, MorsJe vis cette faucheuse. Elle était dans son champ. Elle allait à grands pas moissonnant et fauchant, Noir squelette laissant passer le crépuscule. Dans l'ombre où...
It is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just.
In becoming malicious he only picked up the weapon with which he had been wounded. He
You have knocked at every door? she asked.Yes.Have you knocked at that one there?No.Knock there.
With a remainder of that brotherly compassion which is never totally absent from the heart of a drinker, Phoebus rolled Jehan with his foot onto one of those poor man's pillows which Providence provid...
Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosett...
Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael Angelo? Have you made public schools of your barracks? Have you not, like ourselves, an...
When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.
When they saw him making money, they said, He is a man of business. When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, He is an ambitious man. When he was seen to decline honors, they said, He i...
Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom.
Was there a voice that whispered in his ear that he had just passed the most solemn moment of his destiny, that there was no longer a middle course for him; that from now on, he would either be the be...
VOLUME II.—COSETTE
Un incendie peut faire une aurore sans doute, mais pourquoi ne pas attendre le lever du jour ? Un volcan éclaire, mais l’aube éclaire encore mieux. Combeferre préférait peut-être la blancheur du beau...
True or false, what is said about people often has as much bearing on their lives and especially on their destinies as what they do.
Todos sin excepción tenemos nuestros seres respirables. Si nos faltan, nos falta el aire y nos ahogamos.
To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revol...
To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there.~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
To confide is sometimes to deliver into a person's power.
Time is greedy, man is greedier