But let those who do not desire a future reflect on this matter. When they say no to progress, it is not the future but themselves that they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; th...
Certain forms are torn down, and it is well that they should be, but on condition that they are followed by reconstruction.
Certainly we talk to ourselves; there is no thinking being who has not experienced that. One could even say that the word is never a more magnificent mystery than when, within a man, it travels from h...
Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old,we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an...
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as foreign war? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any war that is not fought between men, between brothers?
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...
Could the word ‘iron’ be the root from which ‘irony’ is derived?
Curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour.
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Death belongs only to God. By what right to men tamper with a thing so unknowable?
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...
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...
Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
Die Wissenschaft muss mit glatten Wangen begonnen werden und nicht erst mit runzeligen, wenn man in ihr etwas erreichen will.
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,...
Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for the night. He whose name is a burden to him needs shelter more than anyone.
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.
Do we ever realize our fondest dreams?
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