There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.
He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
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.
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
Those who live are those who fight.
A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
Morality is truth in full bloom.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Revolution is the larva of civilization.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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