Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The ox suffers, the cart complains. "

Related Quotes:

" Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. "

" Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. "

" No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child. "

" The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. "

" What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. "

" He who opens a school door, closes a prison. "

" 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. "

" A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. "

" Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. "

" Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. "

" Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. "

" The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. "

" Toleration is the best religion. "

" 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. "

" Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. "

" A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. "

" Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. "

" The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. "

" Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. "

" Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. "

" An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. "

" When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. "

" Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. "

" The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. "

" Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. "

" 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. "

" It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. "

" 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. "

" Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. "

" Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? "