There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Quote by Victor Hugo

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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but...

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but...

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies...

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies...

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

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

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must...

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must...

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out...

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out...

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey

Life is the flower for which love is the honey

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the...

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the...

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor...

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor...

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the...

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the...

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the...

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the...

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

To love beauty is to see light.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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

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

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it....

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it....

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

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

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent...

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent...