Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
One does not cross-examine a saint.
I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the darkness it creates. the soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused...
He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.
Ne soyons plus anglais ni français ni allemands. Soyons européens. Ne soyons plus européens, soyons hommes. - Soyons l'humanité. Il nous reste à abdiquer un dernier égoïsme : la patrie.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Et puis, tenez, monsieur Marius,je crois que j'étais un peu amoureuse de vous.
Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.
A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
On coming out of the chapel, a well can be seen on the left. There are two in this yard. You ask, Why is there no bucket and no pulley to this one? Because no water is drawn from it now. Why is no mor...
Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!
A library implies an act of faith.
To love is to act.
I'm not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example.
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.
The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He enters God's theater free; he sees the sky, space, the stars, the flowers, the children, the...
To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
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...
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