Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: and that is an idea whose time has come.
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
There is a great spectacle, and that is the sea. There is a greater spectacle than the sea, and that is the sky. There is yet a greater spectacle than the sky, and that is the interior of the soul. (Contributed by Scott Szabo)
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Everything yields to success, even grammar.
Popularity? It's glory's small change.
"Ruy Blas" (1838) : Act III - Scene V
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