Quotes About Man

The wolf had been trained by the man, or had trained himself unassisted, to divers wolfish arts, which swelled the receipts. Above all things, do not degenerate into a man, his friend would say to him. Never did the wolf bite: the man did now and then. At least, to bite was the intent of Ursus. He was a misanthrope, and to italicize his misanthropy he had made himself a juggler. To live, also; for the stomach has to be consulted.

L'amour, c'est la bêtise de l'homme et l'esprit de Dieu.

Fever supports the sick man, and love the lover.

We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor the thoughtful man.

The first symptom of true love in man is timidity, in a girl it is boldness.

What are the convulsions of a city compared with the riots of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil.

In opposition to this celestial tenderness, he summoned up pride, the fortress of evil in man.

Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.

This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent.

This man of lofty virtue had three domiciles in Paris solely for the purpose of evading the police.

Happy, even in the midst of anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true.

Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled

Questro libro è un dramma in cui il primo personaggio è l'infinito: l'uomo il secondo.

What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people.

Winter changes the water of heaven and the heart of man into a stone.

In these aspirations, much more than in deliberate, rational coordinated ideas, is the real character of a man to be found. Our chimeras are the things which the most resemble us. Each

It is the habit of the envious man to absolve himself of public wrongs with his own personal grievances.

Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.

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.

La oscuridad es vertiginosa; el hombre necesita claridad; el que se interna en las tinieblas se siente con el corazón oprimido. Cuando la mirada ve oscura, el espíritu ve turbio.

the old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the surprise which a man can still feel after a long life.

This book is a drama whose first character is the Infinite. Man is the second.

And blossoming, odour-giving creation, loving and charming, and the grand sky golden with morning spread about La Tourgue and the guillotine, and seemed to say to man, Behold my work, and yours.