There is nothing like the hand of the populace for building everything that is built by demolishing.
The thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philos...
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, that is love.
The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of mustaches.
The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure.
The primitive races of mankind were terrified by the hydra that flew upon the water, by the dragon that belched fire, by the griffin, that aerial monster with wings on an eagle and a tiger's claws — f...
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each ot...
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people dare say nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each othe...
The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and beyond his faith, as it were, the Bishop possessed an excess of love. In was in that quarter, quia multum amavit,—because he lov...
The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man writhed.He felt that he had been stopped short.
The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
The obstinacy of antiquated institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the spoiled fish which should persi...
The next day, the day after, every day, he had to begin again. M. Mabeuf went out with a book and came back with a little money. As the secondhand bookstall keepers saw that he was forced to sell, the...
The moral world has no greater spectacle than this: a troubled and restless conscience on the verge of committing an evil deed, contemplating the sleep of a good man.
The memory of an absent being kindles in the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it beams; the gloomy and despairing soul sees this light on its horizon; the star of the inner...
The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no the would be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would not be. But it is. Then it has a This of the infinite is God...
The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a small garden.
The greatest favorites of destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme smile is God's alone.
The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single h...