Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 47
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.”
“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature.”
“There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
“I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization.”
“The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs.”
“One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.”
“I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.”
“In a revolution, nothing is more terrible than a straight line.”
“He had the blind certainty of the arrow, which sees only the mark and flies to it.”
“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
“The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.”
“Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.”
“Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.”
“For most men, till by losing rendered sager, will back their own opinions by a wager.”
“When people say, "I've told you fifty times," they mean to scold, and very often do.”
“I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.”