A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.
He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.
The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
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