To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables