Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
From Victor Hugo
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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