A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
From Victor Hugo
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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