Everything can be parodied, even parody.
Every skull-cap may dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a king in a regular manner; and what a king! the supreme king.
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...
Do you permit it? Enjolras
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...
Could the word ‘iron’ be the root from which ‘irony’ is derived?
Communism and agrarian law think that they solve the second problem. They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition...
Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old,we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an...
Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history. Men will no longer have to fear, as now, a conquest, an invasion,...
Citizens, in the future there will be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no more Michael. In the futu...
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
Certainly they appeared utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to be degraded in the process, and there comes a point, moreover, where the unfort...
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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...
But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life.
But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling. We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in any case, the combatants of the first...
Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, and you have the gamin.
Be like the bird who, Resting in his flight On a twig too slight, Feels it bend beneath him
Be fair, my friends! To be the empire of such an emperor, what a splendid destiny for a nation, when that nation is France, and when it adds its genius to the genius of such a man ! To appear and to r...
At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The phases of this change were numerous and successive.