Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?
To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
To love is the half of to believe.
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!
When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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