Life is a complex matter thrown into the hands of simple people.
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
Il y a des illusions touchantes qui sont peut-être des réalités sublimes.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Always have something to look forward to
The wise man does not grow old, but ripes.
What is admirable in the clash of young minds is that no one can foresee the spark that sets off an explosion or predict what kind of explosion it will be.
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
That you are happy, that Monsieur Pontmercy has Cosette, that youth espouses mourning, that there are about you, my children, lilacs and nightingales, that your life is a beautiful lawn in the sunshine, that all the enchantments of heaven fill your s...
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the word 'respectable,' whereas to be 'venerable,' a woman should lso be a mother.
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
Ce que Paris conseille, l'Europe le médite ; ce que Paris commence, l'Europe le continue.
At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its philosophy. The difference between logic and philosophy is that one can decide upon war, whereas the other can only be fulfilled by peace.
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Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.
