Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)
Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
We are for religion against the religions.
We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.
Those who do not weep, do not see.