Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

There are things stronger than the strongest man.