“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.”
Happiness“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”
Great“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.”
Happiness“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”
Time“Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.”
God“I'm religiously opposed to religion.”
Religion“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”
Happiness“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
Power“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Life“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Education“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.”
Great“The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.”
Poetry“What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.”
Future“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”
Peace“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”
Courage“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!”
Art“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”
Good“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Music“Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.”
Age“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.”
Smile“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”
Time“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.”
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