From a political point of view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where two or three of these sovereigntie...
Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying...
For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green over a heart in ruins.
First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
Fex urbis, lex orbis (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome
Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, embroidered, gilded, beribboned, starred, in silk stockings, i...
Examine the road over which the fault has passed.- Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel
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...
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...
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.
Duša se ne predaje očaju pre nego iscrpe sve obmane
Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At
Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be cultivated and plu...
Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.
Die Wissenschaft muss mit glatten Wangen begonnen werden und nicht erst mit runzeligen, wenn man in ihr etwas erreichen will.
Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step insi...
Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo)
Death belongs only to God. By what right to men tamper with a thing so unknowable?
Could the word ‘iron’ be the root from which ‘irony’ is derived?