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- There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,…
- From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists…
- And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the…
- The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads…
- Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth…
- He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
- The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone.…
- A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
- Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she…
- The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
- The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
- Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
- The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high…
- Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor;…
- The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective…
- Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to…
- Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
- Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you…
- Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
- ...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
- There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure…
- Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present…
- Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them…
- Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must…
- Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster