Quotes About Strength

El soldado de hierro vale tanto como el duque de hierro.

Il paraît que les paroles des hommes forts doivent toujours recevoir de l'approche de la mort une certaine grandeur.

For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.

Youth, even in its sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance.

One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by lightning.

She flourishes and grows green amid ruins; she has ivy for the stones and love for man.

Knowing that she was beautiful, she felt thoroughly, although in an indistinct way, that she had a weapon. Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They would themselves with it.

To paint a battle requires those mighty artists with chaos in their brush

Creyéndose bella, conocía muy bien, aunque de un modo vago, que tenía un arma. Las mujeres juegan con su belleza como los niños con un cuchillo, y se hieren.

If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive plant; if you are a man, be love.

To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us.

L'âme aide le corps, et à de certains moments le soulève. C'est le seul oiseau qui soutienne sa cage.

You always have everything better than the rest, even pain.

Want de liefde is als een boom, die vanzelf groeit, zijn wortels diep uit doet lopen in heel ons wezen en die blijft uitlopen ook als het hart verbrijzeld is.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Ma sentì che fortificare la sua intelligenza significava fortificare il suo odio.

À de certains moments, Jean Valjean souffrait tant qu'il devenait puéril. C'est le propre de la douleur de faire reparaître le côté enfant de l'homme.

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When adversity entered his room, he bowed to his old acquaintance cordially; he tickled catastrophe in the ribs.

La fuerza más fuerte de todas es un corazón inocente.

Sa beauté, en ce moment-là augmentée de sa fierté, était un resplendissement, et, comme s'il ne pouvait pas plus être fatigué que blessé, après les effrayantes vingt-quatre heures qui venaient de s'écouler, il était vermeil et rose.

Let us die facing out foes, make them bleed while we can.

Em todas as suas provações sentia-se alentado e às vezes impelido por uma oculta força que de dentro lhe vinha. A alma ajuda o corpo e chega mesmo algumas vezes a ampará-lo. É a única ave que sustenta a gaiola em que está encerrada.

Niente è più forte di un'idea il cui tempo sia venuto.