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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.
If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.
Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.
Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.