“A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.”
“Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.”
“Those who live are those who fight.”
“In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.”
“Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”
“Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.”
“Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.”
“People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.”
“For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.”
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
“When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.”
“The true artist can only labor con amore.”
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.”
“The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.”
“Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.”
“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.”
“Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.”
“Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.”
“Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.”
“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
“A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen;She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.”
“The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.”
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
“Emotion is always new.”
