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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.
The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second
What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.