Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.- Victor Hugo
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
When liberty returns, I will return.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
