L’histoire a sa vérité, la légende a la sienne. La vérité légendaire est d’une autre nature que la vérité historique. La vérité légendaire, c’est l’invention ayant pour résultat la réalité. Du reste l’histoire et la légende ont le même but, peindre sous l’homme momentané l’homme éternel.


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Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is ...
VICTOR HUGO
Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race is called Progress, the coll...
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the presen...
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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wr...
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without chi...
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Popularity is glory's small change.
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who b...
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close ...
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To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
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The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
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A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
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The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
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You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It...
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A library implies an act of faith
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their...
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The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this i...
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged do...
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist...
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. F...
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debas...
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality o...
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have labori...
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they t...
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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