There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.
The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to liv...
A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
Vi sono cose che non si deve neppure tentare di dipingere: il sole è fra queste.
The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.
Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.
I'm not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example.
A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the al...
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Those who live are those who fight.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate...
Passando fra gli insorti che si scostavano con religioso rispetto, [papà Mabeuf] continuò dritto verso Enjolras che indietreggiava impietrito, gli strappò la bandiera, e senza che nessuno osasse tratt...
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but...
One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the alphabet. In that sequence, O and P are inseparable. You might just as well say O and P as Orestes and Pylades. A true satellite of E...