There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.
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.
The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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.
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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 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.
A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
Those who live are those who fight.
Morality is truth in full bloom.
Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Revolution is the larva of civilization.
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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