Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
He does not weep who does not see
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Popularity? It is glory's small change
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation.
Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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 other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent
Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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