Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.
In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.
Labor is life; thought is light.
History has its truth; and so has legend hers.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
Happiness wishes everybody happy.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
I see black light (his last words)
I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
Habit is the nursery of errors.
A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
Emotion is always new.
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.
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