Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that’s lacking.
Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
Be happy without picking flaws.
Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
Women are more credulous than men.
No religion but blasphemes a little.
Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.