Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter.
Djali trotted along behind them, so overjoyed at seeing Gringoire again that she constantly made him stumble by affectionately putting her horns between his legs. 'That's life,' said the philosopher,...
Demain, dès l'aube, à l'heure où blanchit la campagne,Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que tu m'attends.J'irai par la forêt, j'irai par la montagne.Je ne puis demeurer loin de toi plus longtemps.Je march...
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...
Dacă nu s-ar aprinde nimic îndărătul pleoapei, înseamnă că nici un gând nu încolțește în minte, înseamnă că nici un sentiment de dragoste nu clocotește în inimă. Acela care iubește, acela are și voinț...
Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.
Claude, saddened and discouraged in his human affections, by all this, had flung himself eagerly into the arms of learning, that sister which, at least does not laugh in your face, and which always pa...
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any war that is not fought between men, between brothers?
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as foreign war? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
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...
Ce sont les quatre avant-gardes du genre humain allant aux quatre points cardinaux du progrès, Diderot vers le beau, Turgot vers l'utile, Voltaire vers le vrai, Rousseau vers le juste.
But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life.
But who among us is perfect? Even the greatest strategists have their eclipses, and the greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart,...
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 it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
Aí desaparece o desinteresse e divisa-se o vago esboço do demónio; cada qual para si. O eu sem olhos uiva, procura, apalpa e rói. Existe nesse golfão o Ugolino social. As figuras ferozes que giram nes...
At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The phases of this change were numerous and successive.